Eyes - Quotes
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Mutual shame we hide our eyes, to blind them from the truth that finds a way for who we are.
To mortal eyes, you, Hope, do seem
a form divinely sweet;
but eyes of gods can pierce the dream
and see your blind deceit.
Unhappy men in times of ill
create you for their easing;
and as their Guardian Angel still
they worship without ceasing.
Why do you flatter me with praise?
Why do you then deride me?
Why in my bosom do you raise
a dubious heart to chide me?
Stay far and fair beyond my reach,
as first my soul you greeted!
I had depended on your speech,
but you have ever cheated.
I do not know why, how long
can I thus remain for you -
but I hold your lovely hand
and I guard your lovely eyes.
That which your heart disguises
open your eyes and see;
that which your eye surmises
let your heart wait to be.
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
I had always been able to gaze in the mirror and see whatever I wanted to see. After all, mirrors are only as truthful as the eyes that are looking into them.
When someone is searching, [...] then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal.
When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!