Sees Quotes
2154 Sees quotes by 1454 unique authors
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and…
— Helen Fisher
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The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.
— John Irving
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There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one…
— Meister Eckhart
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Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
— Rumi
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He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the…
— Antonio Machado
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He insists on a version of you that is funnier, stranger, more eccentric and prfound thatn you suspect yourself to be--capable of doing more good…
— Michael Cunningham
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find…
— Khaled Hosseini
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You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and…
— Azar Nafisi
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Think of all the women you know who will not allow themselves to be seen without makeup. I often wonder how they feel about themselves…
— Bell Hooks
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It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his…
— John Knowles
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And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.
— Stephen King
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In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but…
— Rumi
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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit;…
— William Arthur Ward
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that…
— Carter G. Woodson
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You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above…
— Rene Daumal
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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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…
— Victor Hugo
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