Shut Our Eyes Quotes
12 Shut Our Eyes quotes by 9 unique authors
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall…
— Seneca the Younger
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It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen…
— Patrick Henry
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This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.
— Joseph Hall
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to…
— Gertrude Stein
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Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
— Henry Miller
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to…
— Henry Miller
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You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out:…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she…
— Patrick Henry
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Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to…
— Henry Miller
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There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had…
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Shut Our Eyes Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 12 Shut Our Eyes Quotes as follows: