(33 quotes found)
“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.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.”
Peter De Vries
“Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above”
Heinrich Heine
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction”
Contributed by: Andy James
Antoine de Saint
“And as I looked up, I was gazing on a hill, and in my spine I felt an icy, icy chill. And as I looked upon him, my heart was filled with fear. I was looking at a man sporting a funny crown, three nails, and a spear.”
Nate Ramer
“Those who were pre-ordained to have no good karma at all - gazing into the lamp of emotional attachment, they are burnt, like moths in a flame.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“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.”
“Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.”
Herman Melville
“The ability to hear and the direction of gaze aren't necessarily linked.”
Daniel Winkowski