China Quote by Virginia Woolf

“He must have given up on image making because his eyes had failed to see something they had yearned for; his mind had failed…

— Josip Novakovich

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen…

— Cormac McCarthy

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

— Rafael Sabatini

The Canadian painter A. Y. Jackson noted that 'failure of sight' was a tiresome problem. He meant we should be able to look at…

— Robert Genn

If your vision dies with you, you failed.

— Myles Munroe

When all else failed, you had to rely on eyeball intrumentation.

— Arthur C. Clarke

“I was seeing him different than when he first came in; I was seeing more to him than just big hands and red sideburns…

— Ken Kesey

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

— Ernest Hemingway

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

— Cormac McCarthy

“His eyes had something dull about them, expressionless, the bored look of a mediocre intelligence that wrongly supposes it has “seen it all before.”

— Herman Koch

“He purchased that great canvas also bearing the likeness to his beloved, for he could not bear another to look upon what he dreamed…

— Linda Berdoll

“It might cause considerable surprise to the informed observer (who does not exist) to note that Mr B's eyes begin to fill with tears.…

— Meg Rosoff