Eye Quote by Patricia A. McKillip

“The giant Grof was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and…

— Patricia A. McKillip

“His forehead, however, was disfigured by what looked like a haphazard assortment of eyes, eight in number, of different sizes and shapes. They went…

— David Lindsay

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those…

— GEORGE ELIOT

“Alan Campbell opened one eye. From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up…

— John Dickson Carr

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

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and…

— Mervyn Peake

“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

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“He had never seen such eyes before, not even in the faces of soldiers unmanned in the midst of great carnage. Eyes like black…

— Greg Iles

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

— Hiram Powers

“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart; eyes that see not by reacting to light, but…

— Thomas Merton

“The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup that overflowed and let the rest run down…

— Virginia Woolf