Welcome to our collection of insightful and captivating eye quotes! Eyes are often referred to as the windows to the soul, encapsulating the depth of human emotions, perceptions, and experiences. Throughout history, poets, philosophers, and thinkers from diverse backgrounds have been fascinated by the significance of the eyes, weaving profound narratives and reflections around them.
From Shakespearean sonnets to contemporary prose, the allure of eyes has been a recurring motif, symbolizing everything from love and longing to truth and insight. Whether depicted as mirrors reflecting our innermost thoughts or as beacons guiding our paths, the imagery of eyes transcends cultural boundaries, resonating with people across generations and continents. Join us on a journey through the poetic musings and philosophical ponderings that celebrate the enigmatic beauty of the human eye. Discover timeless wisdom, poignant observations, and evocative imagery that illuminate the profound significance of this remarkable organ.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth
I am very fortunate to work with people I have seen on the screen so many times and admired, and they are in the public eye, and I have seen how they handle it. There are definitely ways to just keep on enjoying the profession and the work. Other people tell me that things are going to change. Alicia Vikander
Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert
So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the eye. Pat Paulsen
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye. William Gibson
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is. Khalil Gibran
There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things. Saint Basil
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. Voltaire
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within. Caspar David Friedrich
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. Helen Keller
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. Thomas Fuller
There are few sights more pleasant to the eye than a wide cotton field when it is in bloom. It presents an appearance of purity, like an immaculate expanse of light, new-fallen snow. Solomon Northup
All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque. Tom Stoppard
When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you. Hugh Bonneville
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. Alfred Hitchcock
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other. Paul Cezanne
There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Napoleon Hill
I want children who can make eye contact. I want children who know how to resolve conflicts with their peers. I want children who understand the dynamics of interpersonal relationships that are physical and tactile. I do not want children that only know how to interface with the world through a screen. Chamath Palihapitiya
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.
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
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. Winston Churchill
There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound. Thomas Hardy
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Oliver Platt
If you haven’t used Bitcoin first-hand, you may not get the inherent advantage of a quicker appreciation and understanding of its potential. Seeing assets move swiftly without intermediaries is an eye opening experience, and that is just a starting point. William Mougayar
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. Martha Beck
If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble – humble or crumble – because it can all go away in the blink of an eye. Raven Goodwin
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
Nation should be rest assured Pakistan is a safe atomic power. No one can cast an evil eye on it. Abdul Qadeer Khan
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul. Minna Antrim
We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present. Amanda Harlech
As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master’s service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart. John Wesley
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. Hunter S. Thompson
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Neil Armstrong
Normal is in the eye of the beholder. Whoopi Goldberg
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. Homer
I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin. Aaliyah
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Benjamin Franklin
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That’s all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. William Butler Yeats
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. David Brainerd
Keep your eye on the ball. Ford Frick
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful. Kailash Satyarthi
The human eye uses the eyebrow as an anchor point for the rest of the face. This is why a woman can look truly stunning without any makeup but perfectly shaped, full eyebrows. Anastasia Soare
Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Edmund Spenser
Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it’s too assertive to the naked eye. Gordon Ramsay
My eye is ever on those who love me. Sai Baba
To confer the gift of drawing, we must create an eye that sees, a hand that obeys, a soul that feels; and in this task, the whole life must cooperate. In this sense, life itself is the only preparation for drawing. Once we have lived, the inner spark of vision does the rest. Maria Montessori
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. Garrison Keillor
Time goes by so slowly when you’re a child, and then, as an adult, it goes by in the blink of an eye. David Lowery
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. Laurence J. Peter
Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow. Ricardo Montalban
Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‘to do’ list. Michelle Obama
I’ve always had an eye for the oddities in life. Nikki Sixx
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. Orson Welles
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant
Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. Kinky Friedman
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. H. L. Mencken
When kids run up to me and ask, ‘What happened?’ I just lean over and whisper, ‘Cigarettes.’ And once I was in a car and this girl at traffic lights was giving me the eye. She could only see my head, so I decided to do a 360 in the car seat to freak her out. Her face was like, ‘Whoa, what is going on?’ She sped off really quickly. Nick Vujicic
I am not a big fan of Mike Tyson. I almost idolized him for what he did in the ring – he was such a great fighter. But his behavior out of the ring… he needed to realize he was in the public eye, and there is a responsibility. Tommy Morrison
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me. Meister Eckhart
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. Rodney Dangerfield
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. Margaret Atwood
Faults are beauties in a lover’s eye. Theocritus
I don’t think people are going to talk in the future. They’re going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs. Kanye West
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. Bram Stoker
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. Salma Hayek
The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor’s sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery. Charlie Puth
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera’s eye may entirely change my idea. Edward Weston
There is a saying, ‘Eyes are the windows to the soul.’ It means, mostly, people can see through someone else by eye contact in seven seconds. I have a habit that if I meet someone I don’t know, I’d like to look at her or his eyes on purpose. When my eyes lay on them, I can immediately see their true color. Peng Liyuan
Trump, in the crinkling of an eye, senses better than anyone the insecurity of people, that nobody knows whether anything is good or bad until they are told, and he is quite willing to tell them immediately. Jimmy Breslin
You’ll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you’ll be challenged and growing and having fun. Kirstie Alley
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Rumi
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King
It’s all fun and games ’till someone loses an eye, then it’s just fun you can’t see. James Hetfield
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled – There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens. Samuel Adams
It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Rod Serling
Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye. Miyamoto Musashi
How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘green’? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? Stan Brakhage
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. Austin O’Malley
If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy. Yotam Ottolenghi
To find a friend one must close one eye – to keep him, two. Norman Douglas
When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. Brad Pitt
During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. Michael Franti
Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye. Bill Hicks
I’m doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I’ll put whatever up there for the visible eye. MF Doom
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson
It is necessary to keep one’s compass in one’s eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. Michelangelo
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus Christ
As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers. William Blake
One eye sees, the other feels. Paul Klee
Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you. Nate Berkus
When I take good care of myself, it lifts my spirits, boosts my confidence, and makes me feel strong. When someone tries to throw me shade, it bounces right off. I look those haters straight in the eye, keep my chin up and shoulders back. Because I know I’m a fierce queen – and they know it, too. Alyssa Edwards
It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. Al Pacino
