Eyes Watching Quotes

• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Robertson Davies

  Educational, Knowledge, Eye

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.

  Roald Dahl

  Eye, Secret Places, Magic In The World

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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  And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

  Roald Dahl

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Roald Dahl (2013). “The Missing Golden Ticket and Other Splendiferous Secrets”, p.8, Penguin

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• They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Eye, Dark, Staring

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 18 (1937)

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• Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Remembers Everything, His Eyes, Want

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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  There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Inspiring, Time

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Distance, Men, Navy

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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• She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Voice, Roots, Dust

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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  And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

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• Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Soul, Horizon, World

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.231, University of Illinois Press

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• Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Dream, Women

  Their Eyes Were Watching God ch. 1 (1937)

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• If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

  Diana Loomans

  Running, Stars, Children

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• Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Tree, Dawn, Done

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

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• They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Towns

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.61, University of Illinois Press

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• Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Crush, Self, Soul

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

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• Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. 

  George Orwell

  Skulls

  George Orwell (2013). “Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition”, p.42, Penguin UK

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• He looked like the love thoughts of women.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love Thoughts

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

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• Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Two, Two Things

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.230, University of Illinois Press

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• I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Life, Moving, Eye

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

  George Orwell

  Eye, Doors, Voice

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Two, Hands

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• It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Commitment, Eye

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• She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Eye, Thinking, Doors

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Less Than Zero”, p.118, Pan Macmillan

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