Sight Quotes - Page 16

• I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Sleep, Insomnia, Men

  Jerome K. Jerome, Geoffrey Harvey (2008). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.34, Oxford University Press

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• I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or that they fall in love at first sight... Conceive the wildest improbabilities. Have it that the depths of their beings are thrilled at accosting each other in slang. Tangle them suddenly in a swift embrace or a brotherly kiss. Do whatever you like.

  Jean Genet

  Falling In Love, Kissing, Blood

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Taken, Stressed

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• Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Taken, Stressed

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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• There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.

  Daniel Handler

  Sad, Book, Reading

  "The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3)". Book by Lemony Snicket (pen name of Daniel Handler), February 25, 2000.

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• Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept like a mechanical deer in my caresses, and I ached in the metal silence of her dreams.

  Richard Brautigan

  Dream, Doors, Silence

  Richard Brautigan, “Hinged To Forgetfulness Like A Door”

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• Yet how hard most people work for mere dust and ashes and care, taking no thought of growing in knowledge and grace, never having time to get in sight of their own ignorance.

  John Muir

  Ignorance, Dust, People

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• Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Optics, Illusion

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• Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

  Mario Puzo

  Girl, Thinking, Play

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.62, Penguin

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• When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)

  Katsura Hoshino

  Heart, Men, Path

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• Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Views, World, Height

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.43, Vintage

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• Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Real, Believe, Romance

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• We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.’ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Compassion, Soul, Gauges

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• Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?

  William Shakespeare

  Morning, Long, Giving

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.244, Classic Books Company

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• When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

  Angela Carter

  Eye, Mirrors, Lust

  Angela Carter (2012). “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”, p.6, Random House

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• No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

  Jennifer Armintrout

  Butterfly, Night, Years

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• Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat, sleep, and play computer games with Seoras, which was actually a super weird sight, it was like high school meets Braveheart meets Call of Duty.

  P. C. Cast

  School, Sleep, Games

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2011). “Awakened: A House of Night Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• When I go from hence, let this be my parting word, that what I have seen is unsurpassable. I have tasted of the hidden honey of this lotus that expands on the ocean of light, and thus I am blessed—let this be my parting word. In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play and here have I caught sight of him who is formless. My whole body and my limbs have thrilled with his touch who is beyond touch; and if the end comes here, let it come—let this be my parting word.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ocean, Blessed, Light

  Rabindranath Tagore (2014). “Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems”, p.84, editionNEXT.com

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• Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

  Jane Austen

  Eye, Hands, Imagination

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.918, GENERAL PRESS

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• p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Doors, Safety

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• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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• You are the best kind of killer, Cassel Sharpe, the kind that never has blood on his hands. The kind that never has to sicken at the sight of what he's done, or come to like it too much.

  Holly Black

  Blood, Hands, Done

  Holly Black (2011). “Red Glove”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Firsts, Caught

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• Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

  Veronica Roth

  Sometimes, Ache, Feels

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• Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

  Ann Voskamp

  Loss, Black, Looks

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.16, Zondervan

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