The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The delicate droop of the petals standing out in relief, is like the eyelid of a child. — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood; And… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again:… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
"Nationwide" featured an amazing collection of apprentice impersonators. From all over Britain, schoolchildren materialised via local studios to give us their imitations… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Blessed the one who has kept the mastery of his eyelids and has not deceived himself with either mind or sense with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars. — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
“Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blink Is he a brave fish or a… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
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