These Eyes Quotes - Page 2

• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Best Friend, Friendship

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• God is there only if you surrender. Surrender makes anything God. Surrender give you the eyes, and everything that is brought to these eyes becomes Divine.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Giving, Surrender

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• Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Eye, Lakes, Precious Stones

  Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, Emil Marriot (1989). “Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja”

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• Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty. ..... I love this world.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Eye, People, Appreciate

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• I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Born, This Life

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.108, Scholastic Inc.

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• She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.' 'We get to keep them,' I said. Grace started at my voice. 'What?' 'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Eye, Voice

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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• I knew it would begin with the end, and the end would look like death to these eyes. I had been warned.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Looks, Ends

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

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• THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Thinking, Voice

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.

  Ben Harper

  Relationship, Eye, Battle

  Song: Forgiven

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• These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.

  Suzanne Segal

  Taken, Eye, Care

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• It made Fire so angry, the thought of such a medicine, a violence done to herself to stop her from creating anything like herself. And what was the purpose of these eyes, this impossible face, the softness and the curves of this body, the strength of this mind; what was the point, if none of the men who desired her were to give her any babies, and all it ever brought her was grief? What was the purpose of a woman monster?

  Kristin Cashore

  Baby, Grief, Eye

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.138, Penguin

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• For thee I dim these eye and stuff this head With all such reading as was never read.

  Alexander Pope

  Reading, Eye, Stuff

  Alexander Pope (1728). “The Dunciad”, p.9

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• Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Lonely, Spring

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing appears to be something. The human experience is a senseory organ for the divine self. Through these eyes, the divine gets to see itself in form.

  Adyashanti

  Eye, Self, Awareness

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• Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover.

  William Morris

  Fear, Eye, Dark

  William Morris (2012). “Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough”, p.239, tredition

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• Traveller, let your step be light,
  So that sleep these eyes may close,
  For poor Scarron, till to-night,
  Ne'er was able e'en to doze.

  Paul Scarron

  Eye, Sleep, Night

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• You drive the landscape like a herd of clouds Moving against your horizontal tower Of steadfast speed. All England lies beneath you like a woman With limbs ravished By one glance carrying all these eyes.

  Stephen Spender

  Lying, Moving, Eye

  Stephen Spender (2015). “New Collected Poems of Stephen Spender”, p.153, Faber & Faber

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

  John Milton

  Stars, Eye, Heart

  John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”, p.36

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• He it is, the innermost one, who awakens my being with his deep hidden touches. He it is who puts his enchantment upon these eyes and joyfully plays on the chords of my heart in varied cadence of pleasure and pain.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Rabindranath Tagore, General Press (2014). “Gitanjali”, p.72, GENERAL PRESS

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• I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbones, and I guess these eyes, and the big nose... this is what my momma and my poppa gave to me, and that's the deal.

  Kim Coates

  Mean, Eye, Scary

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• My slumbers--if I slumber--are not sleep, But a continuance of enduring thought, Which then I can resist not: in my heart There is a vigil, and these eyes but close To look within; and yet I live, and bear The aspect and the form of breathing men.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Sleep, Eye

  Lord Byron (2014). “Manfred”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

  Russell Hoban

  God, Eye, Ideas

  Russell Hoban (2012). “Pilgermann”, p.99, Bloomsbury Publishing

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