Seen Quotes

“Understand this if you understand nothing: it is a powerful thing to be seen”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

“Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like you, in poetry and candlewax and stardust. Who runs outside on stormy nights to howl at the moon. Who collects bones and sings incantation and talks to the ancestors. And that lover, when you find him or her, will see you and know you – just as you are and just as you should be.

And they will say yes. Yes, you. I will go there with you. I have been waiting for this.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“What the eyes had seen could not be erased.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Her gaze unsettles him like it used to, like looking into a mirror, seeing something that has no secrets from you.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter before my eyes until I felt as if every stone in the building was vibrating in anticipation of the sweeping sword of sound from the Choir.

The note exploded in our midst, and at that moment I knew our creator had touched not only me but all of us, just as Harriet had touched that sculpture with a loving hand long ago, and in that touch I sensed the indestructible fidelity, the indescribable devotion and the inexhaustible energy of the creator as he shaped his creation, bringing life out of dead matter, wresting form continually from chaos. Nothing was ever lost, Harriet had said, and nothing was ever wasted because always, when the work was finally completed, every article of the created process, seen or unseen, kept or discarded, broken or mended – EVERYTHING was justified, glorified and redeemed.”
― Susan Howatch

“The idea of not being alone -- of having someone who sees me, same way I see the things that no one else can see, makes me feel like I'm real. Like I deserve to exist on this planet alongside everyone else. That I get to be here because there's someone else who wants me here too.”
― Kacen Callender, Hurricane Child

“He had only wanted to be seen for a moment. Recognized as a man, not a god.”
― Rebecca Roanhorse, Fevered Star

“I mean... There have been moments when I read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn't know how to express, and put them into a perfect paragraph. And in those moments, I've felt so utterly connected to a person I didn't know that it made me think, 'Yes, the world can be hard, and people can be awful to each other. But there is also so much beauty in the fact that we can recognize each other like that.'" She diffled with her straw. "I want to be able to give that feeling to other people.”
― Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance

“Women need to feel seen before they can give themselves permission to be sensual.”
― Lebo Grand

“I want women like Aunt Michelle to understand that it is not only women who look like them who are free, who think, and care about other women.

That it is possible for two things to look similar but be completely different.

That I cover my head like other strong, respected women have done before me, like Malala Yousafzai, like Kariman Abuljadayel, like my mama.

That I cover my head not because I am ashamed, forced, or hiding.

But because I am proud and want to [be] seen as I am.”
― Jasmine Warga, Other Words for Home

“You made me realize that love isn't something that should be earned. And so, I severed myself from the people who held their love above my head. True love is loving all of a person, even the parts that terrify them, and especially the parts they hate. I love you, Lila, for all that you are."
A smile overcomes me effortlessly. Not because of the praise, but because he really sees me. As a beauty queen, as a ballerina, and as the Queen of Hell too. Despite my demons, Damien still loves me. He forgives me.
Maybe it's time I forgive myself.”
― Kiana Krystle, Dance of the Starlit Sea

“The most aching loneliness is being unseen
in a room full of people.

We spend our lives hiding the very parts
we wish someone would see,
teaching ourselves to be invisible—
and blaming others for their blindness.”
― Sean DeLaney

“Her gifts usher her to places she had never been. The works of her own hands' open doors she had never seen. She is a gifted woman.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Woman of Virtue: Power-Filled Quotes for a Powerful Woman

“If I have seen further than those before me, it was because I was deficient in amino acids and creatine.”
― Steven Magee

“I had seen enough during two months of working in Florida to know I would never work there again.”
― Steven Magee

“I was fortunate when I worked at the DeSoto Solar Farm that I had already seen some of the dangerous problems at other solar power systems I had worked at.”
― Steven Magee

“Most electrical engineers have never seen an exploded fuse, as they are very rare!”
― Steven Magee

“The bad which seen closer better than those unseen good from far.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in this world, to be a light, to be a force, or an influence in someone else's life, is all that we need.”
― Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: A Novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register

“Research was indicating that longevity was seen in people that regularly consumed sour milk.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Most managers I have worked for have told me I have some of the best technical skills they have seen in an electrical and electronics engineer.”
― Steven Magee

“During an abduction, you may have less than a minute to raise the alarm before you are never seen again!”
― Steven Magee

“During a suspected abduction, it is better to be wrong earlier than right later. Being right later may result in you never being seen alive again!”
― Steven Magee

“If you allow yourself to be removed from a public area by an abductor, there is a high probability you will never be seen again.”
― Steven Magee

“Every prostitute I have seen up close looks sick. They used to hang around the city hospital where I worked.”
― Steven Magee

“L-arginine dysfunction is being seen in COVID patients and is associated with immune and vascular dysfunction.”
― Steven Magee, Long COVID Supplements

“In this life I've learned,
that I had to 'SEE' myself
to truly be seen.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“The brain can be seen, not the mind. But it doesn’t mean the mind doesn’t exist.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Smiling Brahma

“But he... he was the catalyst in a way. And I chose him. I chose him because he made me feel like I was something other than the Maiden, and he saw me when no one else ever really did. He made me feel alive. He valued me for who I am and didn't try to control me.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Because while cheaters make for feel horrible, they also make you feel... They make you feel special, I guess. They make you feel seen and important”
― Maggie Dallen, The Prom Kiss