Quotes About Observation

All unhappiness enters through the window of observation and the door of thought.

One can see only what one has already seen.

Porque eu sou do tamanho do que vejo. E não do tamanho da minha altura...

It's by the door of thought and the window of observation that suffering comes into one's house.

I'm like a being from another existence who passes, with a certain amount of interest, through this one. I'm alien to it in every way. There's a kind of glass sheet between me and it. I want the glass to be perfectly clear, so that it will in no way hinder my examination of what's behind it, but I always want the glass.

Other people are no more for us than scenery, generally the invisible scenery of a street we know by heart.

I've already seen everything I've never seen. I've already seen everything I haven't yet seen.

I pass times, I pass silences; formless worlds pass by me.

I, who have eyes that are only for seeing, See an absence of meaning in all things.

What matters is to know how to see, ... To know how to see when seeing

Those of us who are curious about life, let us peer out of every door and window, in the weary foreknowledge that we will see nothing new or beautiful.

Nu am c?utat niciodat? s?-mi tr?iesc via?a. Via?a mea s-a tr?it f?r? ca eu s? vreau sau nu. Am vrut doar s? v?d ca ?i cum n-a? fi avut suflet. Am vrut doar s? v?d ca ?i cum a? fi fost numai ochi.

Some metaphors are more real than the people you see walking down the street.

Spoken like a true gardener," Rakeed observed, popping a date ring into his mouth. "Usara's official stance is, of course, spleen." "Spleen?" Penir asked with a frown. "Spleen. Too much or too little. That's always a physician's answer." "That doesn't make any sense.

I cannot say whether there is fur on my wife's legs for I have never seen them nor do I intend to commit myself to the folly of looking at them. In any event and in all politeness -nothing would be further from me than to insult a guest- I deem the point you have made as unimportant because there is surely nothing in the old world to prevent a deceitful kangaroo from shaving the fur from her legs, assuming she is a woman?

There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.

The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it.

He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES. HAVE A LOOK FREE. There was a black bear about four feet long and very thin, resting on the floor of the cage; his back was spotted with bird lime that had been shot down on him by a small chicken hawk sitting on a perch in the upper part of the same apartment. Mose of the hawk's tail was gone; the bear only had one eye.

I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.

The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.

poetry is always dependent on realism, that you have to be a realist or you can't be a poet. Mrs.

I like his eyes, she observed, They don't look like they see what he's looking at but they keep on looking.