Sight Quotes - Page 22

• My heart shoots into my throat every time I think I see his loping walk, or catch sight of some floppy brown hair on a boy - but it's never him, and each time it isn't, my heart does a reverse trajectory down into the very pit of my stomach.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Boys, Thinking

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.223, Hachette UK

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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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• Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

  Kami Garcia

  Butterfly, Like Love, Killers

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• is love at first sight truly possible?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love At First Sight, Firsts

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “At First Sight”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. That goes for societies as well as for individuals.

  Ralph Ellison

  Mind, Patterns, Chaos

  Ralph Ellison (1952). “Invisible Man”

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• Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

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• John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Confused

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• My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

  Deb Caletti

  Running, Father, Mean

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I lunged, low and quick, and drove about a foot of cold steel into his danglies. Hey, I don't care what kind of fearie or mortal or hideous creature you are. If you've got danglies, and can loose them, that's the kind of sight that makes you reconsider the possible genitalia-related ramifications of your actions real damned quick.

  Jim Butcher

  Real, Feet, Steel

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• You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woosley, leaning back against the wall and crossing his arms. "Even the handsome ones." "One will do," said Magnus, and, as Will was no longer within his sight, he let the front door fall shut.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Fall, Doors

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• I want to fall in love in such a way that the mere sight of a man, even a block away from me, will shake and pierce me, will weaken me, and make me tremble and soften and melt.

  Anais Nin

  Falling In Love, Block, Men

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• He has tears in his eyes now. The sight is more than I can bear. He takes two steps away from me and then turns back like a caged animal. “Do you even love me?” he suddenly asks. He grips both of my shoulders. “I’ve said it to you before, and I still mean it. But I’ve never heard it from you.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Mean, Animal

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• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

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• Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.

  Anne Meara

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Birthday, Truth, Men

  Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

  William Saroyan

  Christmas, Children, Eye

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• We, unaccustomed to courage
  exiles from delight
  live coiled in shells of loneliness
  until love leaves its high holy temple
  and comes into our sight
  to liberate us into life.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Courage, Loneliness

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• But oh, she dances in such a way!
  No sun upon an Easter-day
  Is half so fine a sight.

  John Suckling

  Dance, Easter, Half

  Sir John Suckling (1766). “The Works of Sir John Suckling: Containing His Poems, Letters, and Plays”, p.37

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• What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspiring, Graduation, Vision

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• The education of the intellect is a great business; but an unconsecd intellect is the saddest sight on which the sun looks down.

  Edwin Chadwick

  Intelligence, Looks, Sun

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• Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Jealousy, Firsts, Lows

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• All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

  Aristotle

  Knowledge, Men, Views

  Aristotle (1961). “The Metaphysics ...: with an English translation by Hugh Tredennick”

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• The ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.

  Julian of Norwich

  Life, Mercy, Alone In Love

  Julian of Norwich (2013). “The Showings of Divine Love”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Falling In Love, Wipe

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.222, 谷月社

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• These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths,
  With dear companions now passed out of sight,
  Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live,
  Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride
  Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts
  Will meet the offering, of so little worth,
  Wanting the benison death has made divine.

  Lucy Larcom

  Life, Wise, Pride

  "Poems". Book by Lucy Larcom, 1869.

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