Remembering Gaze Quote by Franz Kafka

“Eyes overlook objects unknown to mind.”

— Toba Beta

“Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own.”

— Charles F. Glassman

“Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?”

— Alisia Compton

“It's the mind that sees, not eyes.”

— Toba Beta

“To discover the truth in anything that is alien, first dispense with the indispensable in your own vision.”

— Leonard Cohen

“And yet, when everything is alien the alien becomes familiar.”

— Matt Haig

“Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.”

— Anna Quindlan Every Last One

“Our gaze changes all that it falls upon. ”

— Elizabeth Hand

“(U)derneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it…

— Northrop Frye

“Eyes sense what mind sees.”

— Toba Beta

“It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.”

— Sara Sheridan

“There is no sight in the eye, when the mind does not gaze.”

— Publius Syrus