Sight Quotes - Page 19

• Besides," Shane said "I want to see Monica's face when she catches sight of the two of you. Kodak moment.

  Rachel Caine

  Two, Want, Faces

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.865, Penguin

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• There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Two, Forever, Soul

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• Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

  E. B. White

  Well Said, Abomination, Wells

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.188, Cornell University Press

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• The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Fire, Light

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.295, Delphi Classics

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• I'm almost there, almost to the barricade, when I thinks she hears me. Because for just a moment, she catches sight of me, her lips form my name. And that's when the rest of the parachutes go off.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Names, Lips

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.347, Scholastic Inc.

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• Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Talking, Feet, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Men, Echoes

  "Fictional character: Humbert". "Lolita", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Thinking, Love Is

  W. Somerset Maugham (2015). “The Trembling of a Leaf: Stories of the South Sea Islands”, p.85, Xist Publishing

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Fog

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• I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Farewell, Glasses

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Love, Food, Earth

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• I've been thinking about it a great deal, and it seems to me that although any one sixpence is as good as any other sixpence, not twenty lambs would do instead of one sheep whose face you knew. Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more . Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.

  George MacDonald

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  "George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection".

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• A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.

  Milan Kundera

  Religious, Essence, Doubt

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• Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Light, Sometimes, Right Time

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.167, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Where We Come, Caves

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• Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Skulls, Empty

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• ‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect one must delve into studies, but to obtain wisdom, nothing but the flow of divine mercy is needed; it is as natural as the instinct of swimming to the fish, or of flying to the bird. Intellect is the sight which enables one to see through the external world, but the light of wisdom enables one to see through the external into the internal world.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Swimming, Names, Light

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (2010). “A Sufi Message of Spiritual Liberty”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Friendship, Song, Strong

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Everyman's Poetry”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• A child has little defense against the sight of a parent laid low. Parents, like the earth beneath our feet and the sun above our heads, are immutable objects, eternal and reliable. If one should fall, who might vouch the sun itself won't fall, burning, into the sea?

  Rick Yancey

  Children, Fall, Sea

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil’s whole structure away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Song, Wind

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• I want to experience as many different tastes, sights, emotions, conflicts, and cultures as possible, so that I can expand the canvas of my memory and enrich my comedy.

  Patton Oswalt

  Memories, Different, Culture

  Patton Oswalt (2011). “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.

  Pablo Neruda

  Laughter, Sleep, Being In Love

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• I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Losing

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.134, Scholastic Inc.

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• The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.

  Wilfred Owen

  Night, Broken, Body

  Wilfred Owen (1965). “The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

  Karl Marx

  Revenge, Class, Order

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.36, Haymarket Books

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