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Eye Quotes by Victor Hugo
- From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists…
- I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come…
- Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort…
- If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
- They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but…
- When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
- Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see…
- One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.…
- Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is…
- The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The…
- There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble…
- At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable…
- Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees,…
- The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective…
- Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
- The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful,…
- These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not…
- At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her…
- Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling,…
- When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
- Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.
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