Nicole Krauss Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.

  Nicole Krauss

  Eye, Names, Space

  Nicole Krauss (2003). “Man Walks Into a Room”, p.188, Anchor

• Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

• He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.

  Nicole Krauss

  Morning, Eye, Night

• . . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being able to pass, in their eyes, for an ordinary woman.

  Nicole Krauss

  Eye, Ordinary, Able

• You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Eye, Doors

• ...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

  Nicole Krauss

  Eye, Reality, Depth

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.136, Penguin UK

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