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Eye Quotes by Anais Nin
- "We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
- It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of…
- The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
- This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to…
- She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be…
- Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a…
- My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of…
- If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.
- Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a…
- Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and…
- When she closed her eyes she felt he had many hands, which touched her everywhere, and many mouths, which passed so swiftly over her, and…
- With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring…
- Your eyes make me shy
More Eye Quotes
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like that, big… — David Attenborough
- An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila