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Green, Blue, Brown, Hazel And More 70+ Beautiful Quotes About Eyes

Here’s a selection of Quotes About Eyes, covering topics such as love, life, horses and windows to the soul.

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It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry Pratchett

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.
Katherine Mansfield

If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, ‘This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne’er touch’d earthly faces.’
William Shakespeare

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.
Jennifer Elisabeth

And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow’s eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company.
William Shakespeare

Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.
Christian Nevell Bovee

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.
Bill Cosby

When pain brings you down, don’t be silly, don’t close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.
Alanis Morissette

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Because of this the representation I’m interested in is of those things only the eye can touch.
Kenneth Noland

His eyes are so intense I want to look away . . . Or never look away, I can’t decide.
Kasie West

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want..
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.
Leonardo da Vinci

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey Hepburn

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
William Shakespeare

They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
William Shakespeare

The eye through which I see god is the same eye through which god sees me; my eye and god’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
Meister Eckhart

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye.
Charlotte Brontë

That old law about ‘an eye for an eye’ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
William Shakespeare

Those true eyes Too pure and too honest in aught to disguise The sweet soul shining through them
Owen Meredith

His eyes were the same colour as the sea in a postcard someone sends you when they love you, but not enough to stay.
Warsan Shire

Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity.
William Shakespeare

I like you; your eyes are full of language.”

[letter to anne clarke, july 3, 1964.].

Anne Sexton

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

I am intrigued by the smile upon your face, and the sadness within your eyes.
Jeremy Aldana

A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
Dorothea Lange

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Marilyn Monroe

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
Otto von Bismarck

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
Billy Graham

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey’d, Such seems your beauty still.
William Shakespeare

And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.
William Shakespeare

True love doesn’t need proof.
the eyes told what heart felt.
Toba Beta

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
William Shakespeare

The eyes are one of the most powerful tools a woman can have. With one look, she can relay the most intimate message. After the connection is made, words cease to exist.
Jennifer Salaiz

Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
Andrew Yang

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man’s self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
Kgalema Motlanthe

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night.
William Shakespeare

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
Taylor Swift

If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.
Santosh Kalwar

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.
Aristotle

Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me? his over-whelming good looks maybe? the way his eyes blaze at me? the way he strokes his index finger against his lower lip? I wish he’d stop doing that.
E.L. James

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.
Billie Eilish

Then love knew it was called love.
and when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way.
Pablo Neruda

Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate… When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
William Shakespeare

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
Alexander Pope

There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done.
E. Nesbit

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.
Frida Kahlo

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.
William Shakespeare

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it’s time America was run like a business.
Donald Trump

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David Thoreau

Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye.
Gordon Ramsay

Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
William Shakespeare

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
W. H. Auden

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There’s still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
Cameron Diaz

If my eyes have pain, I close them; if my body aches, I rest it; if my heart breaks, I mend it; if my soul is lost, I pray for it.
Jeremy Aldana

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
Wassily Kandinsky

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
William Shakespeare

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
Ray Bradbury

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting, Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
William Shakespeare

Anyone can look at others’ eyes, but Lovers can seeinto each others’ souls through the eyes
Larry Latta.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
William Shakespeare

Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
William Shakespeare

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
Bob Marley

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Robert Smithson

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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