Foreheads Quote by Maurice Blanchot Download Open image “To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.” — Maurice Blanchot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foreheads Throat
The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
I looked at death in the face once...and it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do. — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye. — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
It was a source of both terror and comfort to me then that I often seemed invisible — incompletely and minimally existent, in fact.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“How not to search that space where, for a time span lasting from dusk to dawn, two beings have no other reason to exist… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
But my silence is real. If I hid it from you, you would find it again a little farther on. — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“As the German expression has it, the last judgement is the youngest day, and it is a day surpassing all days. Not that judgement… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“Writing is not destined to leave traces, but to erase, by traces, all traces, to disappear in the fragmentary space of writing more definitely… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“If the sculptor uses stone and if the road builder also uses stone, the first uses it in a way that it is not… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“I went in; I closed the door. I sat down on the bed. Blackest space extended before me. I was not in this blackness,… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
“But this is the rule, and there is no way to free oneself of it: as soon as the thought has arisen, it must… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
We can never put enough distance between ourselves and what we love. To think that God is, is still to think of him as… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
Lovers of painting and lovers of music are people who openly display their preference like a delectable ailment that isolates them and makes them… — Maurice Blanchot Copy Share Image
He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her full on the mouth. His skin was wet with rain. When she didn't pull… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It’s as easy as we choose to make it,” he murmured, pressing his forehead to mine. “At least, this decision is. Nothing’s truly easy,… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords… — Damon Knight Copy Share Image
No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny. — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. — William Boyd Copy Share Image
You know, I've got wrinkles on my forehead and smile lines, but what's wrong with that? I love to smile. — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Sorry,” he said. “Let me drop the belt-" “No.” She held on when he would have pulled away. “Don’t. I like it.” Again, he… — Jill Shalvis Copy Share Image