Creatures Quote by Don DeLillo

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The eyes, too, were reptilelike in glint and gaze. Yet at that instant, humbled and alert in their look, they were lit by one…

— James Joyce

“ Homo sapiens have left themselves few places and scant ways to witness other species in their own worlds, an estrangement that leaves us…

— Ellen Meloy

“We were the first human beings who would never see anythign for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed,…

— Gillian Flynn

“It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part…

— Mary Shelley

“as I delved deeper into the subject, it was more than the eyes—it was what was behind the eyes, in the brain, wanting to…

— V.C. Andrews

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

— Edward Carpenter

“I wondered whether the loss of one's sight would deprive a person also of the memory of everything that he had seen before. If…

— Jerzy Kosinski

“We are so fascinated by the complexity and beauty of the various forms in nature, that we have been led away from the formless…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

The eye is the window of the soul; even an animal looks for a man's intentions right into his eyes.

— Hiram Powers