Gaze Quotes

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Neil Gaiman
“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
Neil Gaiman, Stardust

Suzanne Collins
“He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Leo Tolstoy
“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Neil Gaiman
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”
Neil Gaiman , Stardust

Jean Lorrain
“The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose depths I might be able, like Hamlet redeemed, to drown the Ophelia of my desire.”
Jean Lorrain, Monsieur De Phocas

Dejan Stojanovic
“It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.”
Dejan Stojanovic

Sanober  Khan
“and the afterglow...
of your gaze...is the only
sweater that I need.”
Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence

Helen Oyeyemi
“Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?”
Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
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Michel Foucault
“There is no need for arms, physical violence, material constraints. Just a gaze. An inspecting gaze, a gaze that each individual under its weight will end by [internalising] to the point that they are their own overseer, each individual thus exercising surveillance over, and against themself.”
Michel Foucault

Peter S. Beagle
“If he had even blinked, she would have been gone; but he did not blink, and he held her, as he had learned to hold griffins and chimeras motionless with his steady gaze. Her bare feet wounded him deeper than any tusk or riving talon ever had, but he was a true hero.”
Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

Han Kang
“To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch.
Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to touch. It moves lungs and throat and tongue and lips, it vibrates the air as it wings its way to the listener. The tongue grows dry, saliva spatters, the lips crack. When she found that physical process too much to bear, she became paradoxically more verbose.”
Han Kang, Greek Lessons

Christelle Dabos
“Quando gli ematomi si fossero riassorbiti e l'artigliata di Freya si fosse trasformata in cicatrice, Ofelia avrebbe rivisto il viso che conosceva. Lo sguardo però, non sarebbe più stato come prima. A forza di vedere illusioni aveva perso le proprie, e andava bene così. Quando le illusioni spariscono rimane solo la verità.”
Christelle Dabos, Les Fiancés de l'hiver

“It doesn't take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone's gaze.”
Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

Michael Bassey Johnson
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

“At issue for Peladan is the potency of the visual image: art's ability to construct images for viewing that can mobilize, concentrate and redirect instinctive responses. He brings out into the open the recognition underlying all decadent art; that is, the political function of the fascinated gaze.”
Jennifer Birkett

Holly Black
“Locke brings me a thimbleful of liquor, and I take a tiny scalding sip for
the sake of politeness. I start coughing immediately. At that moment,
Cardan’s gaze goes to me. His eyes are barely open, but I can see the shine of
them, wet as tar. He watches me as the girl kisses his mouth, watches me as
she slides her hand beneath the hem of his silly, ruffly shirt.”
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“I can read and see the words that you have confined behind the wall of your lips in the expression on your face and in the gaze of your eyes.”
Sanu Sharma, फरक [Pharak]

László Krasznahorkai
“...we must never lose sight of that gaze with which we look at things.”
László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming

“His gaze was different – it was like the narration of a thousand heavenly folktales.”
Tshetrim Tharchen, A Play of the Cosmos: Script of the Stars

John Steinbeck
“If I'm a little late, don't go before I get there, will you?"
"Would you like to carry my books home?"
"Yes," said Cal.
She looked at him long, full in the eyes, until he wanted to drop his gaze, and then she walked away toward her class.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Nick Oliveri
“His breaths were silent, his gaze was steady, and his eyes were hollow.”
Nick Oliveri, The Conjurer

Molly Ringle
“Their eyes caught, and he felt his life pause, swing around, and open up to show him a path he hadn’t even known existed. For those lovely, suspended seconds, he thought he might even have the courage to step onto it.”
Molly Ringle, Ballad for Jasmine Town

Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“The newborn’s preference for a mutual, rather than unilateral, gaze shows that babies are designed for reciprocity.”
Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine

Luigina Sgarro
“We always fall in love with ourselves. We don't fall in love with the eyes, we fall in love with a glance and how we see ourselves reflected in it.”
Luigina Sgarro

Holly Black
“I feel his gaze on my back, pricking the hairs on my neck. It is all I can do not to run.”
Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

Laurence Galian
“All initiatory truths are veiled. While almost every reader of Sufism and metaphysics in general, is very familiar with the fact that Allah does not gaze at His friends (awliya) directly but cloaks His gaze with a veil (hijab), very few students will pause to consider of what these veils may consist.”
Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

Jayita Bhattacharjee
“In your gaze, a song did fly...how lyrics welled in the dark depths of your eyes...for in your look, is the music of a bottomless sea....”
Jayita Bhattacharjee

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