Sight Quotes - Page 13

• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

  Dante Alighieri

  Squares, Circles, Principles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.285, Bantam Classics

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Agony, Sensual

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• ...every sight and sound inspiring, leading one far out of himself, yet feeding and building up his individuality.

  John Muir

  Building Up, Individuality, Sound

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.350, Library of America

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• Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cat, Magic, Lasts

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• Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

  W. H. Auden

  Smell, People, Handwriting

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• If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

  Gregory Maguire

  Eye, Magic, Skins

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• People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them.

  Ann Brashares

  Makeup, Hair, Voice

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• This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Men, Garden

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

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• Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Thinking, Want, Easy

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “Kissing the Beehive”, p.174, Open Road Media

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• These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.

  Ian Mcewan

  Memories, War, Lasts

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• There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, War, Book

  Libba Bray (2009). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Black, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• ..this indiscriminate love feels entirely serious to her, as if everything in the world is part of a vast, inscrutable intention and everything in the world has its own secret name, a name that cannot be conveyed in language but is simply the sight and feel of the thing itself.

  Michael Cunningham

  Names, Secret, World

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.12, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.

  William S. Burroughs

  Artist, Color, Museums

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• Again, Rayford slid to the ground, raising his arms. "My Lord and my God, I am so unworthy." "And you, Rayford, who once were alienated and an enemy in your mind by wicked works, yet now I have reconciled the body of My flesh through death to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in God's sight." "Unworthy! Unworthy!" Rayford cried. "Justified by faith," Jesus said, "Justified.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Mind, Enemy

  Tim F. LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2004). “Glorious appearing: the end of days”

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• There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

  Frank Peretti

  Dignity, Sanctity, Human Life

  "The Veritas Project: Hangman's Curse".

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• It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

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• The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).

  Roland Barthes

  Doe, Sugar, Violence

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• Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.

  Alison Croggon

  Queens, War, Heart

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• You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love Is, Looks, Know How

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• Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.

  Gene Wolfe

  Clever, Thinking, Singing

  Gene Wolfe (1989). “Soldier of Arete”, p.362, Macmillan

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• Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

  Toni Morrison

  Sheep, Here I Am, Shoes

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• When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Loss, Honor, Principles

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.325, Bible Study Steps

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• So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak sense of Pascal's wager. But on second thoughts it seems a cop-out, because the same could be said of Father Christmas and tooth fairies. There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Father, Science

  Speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival, April 15, 1992.

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• Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.

  Ai Yazawa

  I Can, Loses, Closeness

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