Eye Quote by Ivan Turgenev

All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long…

— Victor Hugo

My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to…

— Haruki Murakami

I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody…

— Edvard Munch

As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people,…

— Kim Hyesoon

I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose…

— William Wordsworth

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the…

— Tomas Transtromer

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care…

— Garth Stein

The gloom encroaches upon my mind, and my heart flutters like a bird held fast in a fist.

— Hannah Kent

Something in my gut twisted so hard that it felt like I was being tickled by an invisible hand, and it took me a…

— Alexander Gordon Smith

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly…

— Anonymous

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery