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Eye Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;…
- Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl…
- But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
- But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes;…
- But what is more to the point is my belief that the habit of writing thus for my own eye only is good practice. It…
- Am I alone in my egotism when I say that never does the pale light of dawn filter through the blinds of 52 Tavistock Square…
- The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
- Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.
- His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the…
- The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down its…
- The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
- The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James looked at the…
- With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.
- There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes…
- I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The…
- I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of…
- The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to…
- For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.
- Suppose the looking glass smashes, the image disappears, and the romantic figure with the green of forest depths all about it is there no longer,…
- She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went…
- No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes
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