Peepholes Quotes:

How rich are we that we can look on these worlds with the perspective of modern science ... that we do not have to wonder as did former men whether stars are jewels hanging from celestial drapery or peepholes in the astral skin of creation!

- Guy Murchie

topic: Stars, Philosophy, Men, Modern Science, Peepholes

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

- Djuna Barnes

topic: Eye, Giving, Criticism, Peepholes, Hidden Treasure

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

- Yann Martel

topic: Views, Vastness, Tiny, Peepholes, Entry

Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.

- George Santayana

topic: Experience, Glimpse, Causes, Peepholes, Rumble

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.144, Faber & Faber

topic: Stars, Night, Light, Peepholes

[Cannery Row's] inhabitants are, as the man once said, 'whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,' by which he meant everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, 'saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,' and he would have meant the same thing.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (1993). “Cannery Row”, p.9, Penguin

topic: Angel, Son, Men, Monterey, Peepholes

I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the countryside with these magic lanterns and tell stories. And there was this cabinet that you would walk up to and it had a little peephole and inside the whole thing was covered in thousands of little mirrors.

- Danielle Dutton

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Wall, Mirrors, People, Peepholes, Lanterns

She spent an afternoon staring at their front door. Waiting for someone? Yankel asked. What color is this? He stood very close to the door, letting the end of his nose touch the peephole. He licked the wood and joked, It certainly tastes like red. Yes, it is red, isn't it? Seems so. She buried her head in her hands. But couldn't it be just a bit more red?

- Jonathan Safran Foer

source: Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Doors, Hands, Color, Peepholes