Eyes Quotes

“Which eyes should I look for to find the ultimate, unreasoned answer?”
― Suman Pokhrel

“On earth the brute creation bends its gaze,
but man was given a lofty countenance
and was commanded to behold the skies;
and with an upright face may view the stars.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

“For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their grave.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“Whose eyes matter more than the end?”
― Andreea Daiana, Under Moonlight: 2025

“Focus on your partner. She has only eyes for you.”
― E.G. Sparks, Shifter Hearts

“I should be content. Content! — Oh, how gladly would I die of the light of her eyes! Yea, I would cease to be, if that would bring me one word of love from the one mouth.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

“Every time I set eyes on Macon Saint, the reaction was visceral, a punch to the solar plexus. He was gorgeous, sure, but it was his eyes that did it. They burned as if he could strip the skin from my bones and rip right into the heart of me.
Mama always said I was fanciful with my words, but that was the truth of it: locking gazes with Macon was like forging into an angry storm. You'd come out of it weak, breathless, and a little bruised.”
― Kristen Callihan, Dear Enemy

“There’s an ocean in your eyes,
Surging, smiling, promising
More than a glance”
― Britni Pepper, Good Travel, Bad Sex: Flings, Swings, and Shocking Twists

“People who break their Word are in my Eyes the most pathetic and honorless Losers on this Planet – I don't want to waste one Second with these Chumps, because my Word means more than my own Life to me – I die for my Word.”
― Sino Melo

“Now I'm 25 years old and can predict with Certainty that after my Death, People will be slandering about me, who weren't even able to look me into the Eyes without my Permission during my Lifetime. May you freeze through Disgust when you look into the Mirror.”
― Sino Melo

“Way to a woman's heart is through her eyes, not between her legs.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“my eyes may bear a common hue,
but know —
they’re only set on you.”
― Kynna Claire

“i miss the way the stars looked
reflected in your eyes
i have never seen a more worthy mirror
for infinity than you”
― Whitney Hanson, Harmony

“He hadn't lied to her when he'd told her her eyes could drive a man to murder, because they had, even without her knowing.”
― RuNyx

“But as we started southward, I was thinking of those eyes. They rose unbidden in my mind.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The King's Messenger

“Her eyes, in particular, look hollow—the kind of eyes that have seen too much and burned out somewhere along the way.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Purgatory

“April lifts her veil and I see her eyes. Green and cold as marbles, slightly popping out of her head. Glassy and sharp - boiled sweets, the sort that crack in your mouth and cut your tongue.”
― Judith Bruce, Funny How Things Turn Out: Love, Death and Unsuitable Husbands - a Mother and Daughter story

“She is a remarkably nice girl,' said Van Aldin thoughtfully, 'very nice. Did you happen to notice her eyes?'
'Any man,' said Knighton, 'would be bound to notice her eyes.”
― Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train

“The whole world is a monument to our fidelity, because what is ours will never be found elsewhere without all the visions I have listed, symbols of the love that enslaves us. And if you go in search of a world without memories in order to forget, there is nothing that will block our eyes or our ears. Our skin is wide awake and covered with eyes, although others think that we only have two eyes, and ears, although others think we only have two ears. Certain key places in our bodies connect us to those aspects of spirituality, of sex, that cannot be confessed, like the palm of the woman's hand, the inside of her elbow, or the vulnerable flesh of his ear and the curve of his foot.”
― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces

“0 Juppiter vergeeft het mijn
Soo'ck weenich van u houwe,
U blixems niet soo crachtich sijn
Als d'oogen van mijn vrouwe.”
― P.C. Hooft, De gedichten

“Knowledge is eye candy”
― Eleno Carvalho

“My eyes are shaky and glimmer like the stars.”
― Gabrielle Calvocoressi

“All the mor ning's wind (now it was hardly a breeze and it wasn't cold) had blown through her blond hair which paired away her white, bleak face – two unfair words – and put the world at her feet and horribly alone in front of her dark eyes, her eyes fell on things like two eagles, two leaps into nothingness, two puffs of green slime. I'm not describing anything, it's more a msatter of trying to understand it. And I said two puffs of green slime.”
― Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up

“All the morning's wind (now it was hardly a breeze and it wasn't cold) had blown through her blond hair which paired away her white, bleak face – two unfair words – and put the world at her feet and horribly alone in front of her dark eyes, her eyes fell on things like two eagles, two leaps into nothingness, two puffs of green slime. I'm not describing anything, it's more a msatter of trying to understand it. And I said two puffs of green slime.”
― Julio Cortázar, Blow-Up

“I startled when Kelly took my hands in his. He was watching me with those blue, blue eyes. Something stirred deep within me, something primal and brutal. I wanted to tear apart everything that would ever hurt him. It was grass and lake water and sunshine.”
― T.J. Klune, Heartsong

“Eyes ate more than mouths ever did, and the feast before her was delightful.”
― Hafsah Faizal, A Steeping of Blood

“You can always read a man’s character by his eyes.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blythes Are Quoted

“Their eyes meet again. A question, a response. An understanding.”
― Carla Bruce, You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs

“After that evening, countless evenings sank before my eyes. In a season of sunshine and shade.”
― Wajid Shaikh, Sukoon

“After staring at each other for a while until we understood that
meeting eye to eye
leads to understanding and telling;
understanding is disquiet,
and telling is disappointing
-while the eyes that meet each other
among plenty of pairs of eyes
are our eyes-
We thought our disquiet would be over.”
― Mehmet Çil, a Painting a Poem