Eyelids Quotes

• The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Weight

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• Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

  Paul Valery

  Block, Men, Want

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• Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Music, Lying, Tired

  'The Lotos-Eaters' (1832) Choric Song, st. 1

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• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Red, Rags

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Clothes, Romance, Littles

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• I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Breathing, Everyday

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• When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Sex, Clothes, Sensual

  "Claudine and Annie". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1903.

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• She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Egypt, Pyramids, Mystery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.507

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Sleep, Night

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

  Bar Refaeli

  Artist, Looks, Use

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• Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Song, Heart

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

  John Milton

  Fall, Sleep, Dew

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.263

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• People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

  David Petraeus

  Reading, Night, People

  Interview with Jennifer Griffin, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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• The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Heart, Water, Tears

  "Mystical Dimensions of Islam". Book by Annemarie Schimmel, 1978.

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• But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Men

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1861). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Adapted for Family Reading”, p.185

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• I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 16: "The Scroll Marked IX," p. 95, 1968.

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• The truth is dark under your eyelids.

  Charles Simic

  Truth, Dark, Truth Is

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What e'er you are
  That in this desert inaccessible,
  Under the shade of melancholy boughs,
  Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Desert, Shade

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.802, Tyché

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• Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.

  Victor Hugo

  Goodbye, Kissing, Giving

  Victor Hugo (2015). “Les Misérables”, p.1031, First Avenue Editions

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• O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Insomnia, Nurse

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 5

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• It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

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• I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Dream, Climbing, Mountain

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• I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  World, Sinkholes, Bigs

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• Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find.

  William Shakespeare

  Tired, Night, Journey

  Sonnet 27

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• Saw you walking barefoot taking a long look at the new moon's eyelid later spread sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair asleep but not oblivious of the unslept unsleeping elsewhere Tonight I think no poetry will serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the plane adverb modifies action verb force-feeds noun submerges the subject noun is choking verb disgraced goes on doing now diagram the sentence

  Adrienne Rich

  Sleep, Dark, Thinking

  Adrienne Rich (2011). “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010: Poems 2007–2010”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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