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Eye Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the…
- I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.
- Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness,…
- If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
- I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
- I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
- I am sending back the key that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me I am sending back the key;…
- I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that…
- I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up…
- ..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my…
- But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will…
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