Eyes Watching Quotes:

He looked like the love thoughts of women.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

topic: Love Thoughts, Eyes Watching

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.230, University of Illinois Press

topic: Two, Two Things, Eyes Watching

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.61, University of Illinois Press

topic: Towns, Eyes Watching

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

- Robertson Davies

source: Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

topic: Educational, Optimistic, Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

- Gerard Way

topic: Life, Change, Death, Times Have Changed, Source Of Life

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2017). “Billy and the Minpins (illustrated by Quentin Blake)”, p.77, Penguin UK

topic: Inspirational, Life, Believe, Inspirational Children, Magical Places

They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Eye, Dark, Staring, Eyes Watching

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Want, Remember, Forget, Janie, Eyes Watching

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.246, Feminist Press at CUNY

topic: Life, Inspiring, Time, Eyes Watching, Harlem

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Discovering Yourself, Journey And Destination

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Life, Dream, Women, Janie, Landing

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

topic: Voice, Roots, Dust, Pears, Ecstatic

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

source: Le Petit Prince ch. 21 (1943)

topic: Love, Life, Determination, Great Marriage, Inspirational Children

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

- Zora Neale Hurston

topic: Soul, Horizon, World, Eyes Watching, Mesh

If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.I'd run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I'd do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I'd build self esteem first, and the house later.I'd teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

- Diana Loomans

topic: Running, Stars, Children, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

topic: Tree, Dawn, Done, Janie, Eyes Watching

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

- Zora Neale Hurston

source: Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.155, University of Illinois Press

topic: Crush, Self, Soul, Janie, Eyes Watching

Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.

- George Orwell

topic: Eye, Doors, Voice, Eyes Watching

I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always eyes watching you. All the wildlife of the woods, the insects, birds, and animals, are well aware of your presence no matter how softly you may tread, and they follow your every move although you cannot see them.

- Thalassa Cruso

source: Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

topic: Moving, Eye, Animal, Eyes Watching

There are two kinds of witnesses. One kind is the people that surround you. You are constantly aware that you are being watched, witnessed. With so many eyes watching you, you are reduced to an object... And you are afraid because they may not appreciate you. They may not feed your ego, they may not like you, they may reject you. Now you are in their hands.

- Rajneesh

topic: Eye, Two, Hands, Eyes Watching, Rejects You

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Children, Commitment, Eye, Transience, Old Houses

She laughs and looks out the window and I think for a minute that she's going to start to cry. I'm standing by the door and I look over at the Elvis Costello poster, at his eyes, watching her, watching us, and I try to get her away from it, so I tell her to come over here, sit down, and she thinks I want to hug her or something and she comes over to me and puts her arms around my back and says something like 'I think we've all lost some sort of feeling.

- Bret Easton Ellis

topic: Eye, Thinking, Doors, Eyes Watching

I believe it is possible to tell what sign some people were born under by watching their eyes, watching how they walk, how they talk.

- Charley Pride

topic: Believe, Eye, People, Eyes Watching

Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots.

- P. C. Cast

topic: Sweet, Fall, Eye, Eyes Watching

You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know what I look like. You have no power over me. What do you think I look like? Skinny? Freckles? Wire-rimmed glasses over brown eyes? No, I don't think so. Better look again. Deeper. It's like a kaleidoscope, isn't it? One minute I'm short, the next minute tall, one minute I'm geeky, one minute studly, my shape constantly changes, and the only thing that stays constant is my brown eyes. Watching you.

- David Klass

topic: Eye, Writing, Thinking, Brown Eyes, Freckles