“Where's the cheek that doth not fade, / Too much gazed at?”
John Keats
“Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
“Moon gazing is an act of gazing at the moon believing that somewhere is someone thinking of you...”
john b. bejo
“She was perfectly quiet now, but not asleep--only soothed by sweet porridge and warmth into that wide-gazing calm which makes us older human beings, with our inward turmoil, feel a certain awe in the presence of a little child, such as we feel before some quiet majesty or beauty in the earth or sky--before a steady glowing planet, or a full-flowered eglantine, or the bending trees over a silent pathway.”
George Eliot
“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
“O lady, why are you gazing downward? Has something of yours fallen on the ground? (She replies) O fool, can you not understand the pearl of my youth has slipped away?”
Chanakya