Eyes Quotes

His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

~ Gail Carriger

You have two eyes, and two ears, but only one mouth. This is so because you are supposed to look and listen more than you talk.

~ Lucca Kaldahl

His eyes were open wounds beneath his heavy brows, a blue as dark as the sea by night.

~ George R.r. Martin

His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.

~ Rainbow Rowell

She was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things

~ Ernest Hemingway

The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.

~ Jean Lorrain

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes, eyes that were very pretty and very good.

~ Charles Dickens

I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed?

~ Brian Celio

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

~ Charles Dickens

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

~ Bette Davis

Blue is the most common eye color in Oria Province, but there is something different about his eyes and I'm not sure what it is. More depth? I wonder what he sees when he looks at me. If he seems to have depth to me, do I seem shallow and transparent to him?

~ Ally Condie

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

~ Stanisław Lem

Your eyes will always be closer to your soul than to any other part of your body except the heart.

~ Sorin Cerin

See not the face..but only the eyes, of the poker face.

~ Toba Beta

My eyes were closed, they're open now

~ Damien Rice

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. There's nothing left worth saying.

~ Isaac Marion

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

~ Jeannette Walls

They were a deep emerald green, the exact same color as mine, and they glowed with an intensity I had never witnessed before. A slash of silver crossed each one, the sun's reflection making them sparkle like dancing crystals. The emerald irises appeared to be swirling in circles, creating the illusion that his eyes were never-ending. Flecks of darker emerald clustered around each pupil made my breath catch in my throat. Suddenly, my disheartened mood vanished, almost as if I had never felt sadness before. Something about these eyes held me in place, as if I had found a balance, blanketing me in a cocoon of comfort, free of worries and concerns.

~ Markelle Grabo

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

~ A. Lee Martinez

He stood there, his eyes like they had been before. Their beauty stabbed at her heart like a great knife; the hair looked so like she had just pressed the wet comb to it and perhaps put a little pomade on the sides; and the small face was clean and sad. Yet her arms somehow did not ache to hold him like her heart told her they should. Something too far away and too strong was between her and him; she only saw him as she had always seen resurrection pictures, hidden from us as in a wonderful mist that will not let us see our love complete.

~ James Purdy

Have you ever put finger, algea-filled lake-water, or shampoo in there? Yeah, that gets your eyes screaming in pain pretty quick, doesn't it? Unless you're using baby No More Tears shampoo, of course, in which case feel free to lather your eyeballs right on up, no worries.

~ Neil Pasricha

Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.

~ Neil Gaiman

You would say you don't see it: at least I flatter myself I read as much in your eye (beware, by-the-by, what you express with that organ, I am quick at interpreting its language).

~ Charlotte Brontë

St. John's eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom. He seemed to use them rather as instruments to search other people's thoughts, than as agents to reveal his own: the which combination of keenness and reserve was considerably more calculated to embarrass than to encourage.

~ Charlotte Brontë

I’ve learnt that eyes don't change. No matter how old or beat up you get, your eyes stay the same.

~ Eloise Dyson

She had eyes that bore deep into his heart, bringing a sweet warm wave of assurance within; eyes that cradled him in the crisp black-and-white world on the other side of the picture, where life was, at least, beautifully lit.

~ Stephen Mosley

The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool.

~ George R.r. Martin

Eyes skip a low-key profile.

~ Toba Beta

I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not.

~ Frederick Buechner

He'd never seen one so vibrant, though, or so vividly compelling... those glowing green eyes sparkling with sunlight and curiosity and silent laughter, and when she glanced in Henry's direction, she held his gaze, a look that was both challenging and enigmatic... He was utterly certain that this was Eleanor of Aquitaine, and no less sure that the French King must be one of God's greatest fools.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

If you see it's impossible, you may use others' eyes.

~ Toba Beta

...his eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell.

~ Jessie Douglas Kerruish

She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.

~ R.j. Lawrence

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

~ Albert Einstein

If only our eyes were silver feathered wings, undoubtedly, we would lash-lift our shimmered lids to the highest of life's limitless heights...then innately, instinctively, intentionally we would fly.

~ Tracey Bond

All this seeing.All this relentless taking in.

~ Lance Olsen

And his eyes. Don't get me started on his eyes. Just . . . don't. I can't even with this guy. So. Gorgeous. They held an invitation as well, a twinkly, heated, mesmerizing invitation. And I wanted to RSVP so hard.

~ Penny Reid

For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny. And then she is gone.

~ Anna B. Doe

Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.

~ Victoria Aveyard

Your eyes make me pick up my pen and write.

~ Avijeet Das