Best stones & eye Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.”

Mind I Can Eye Faces Sky Clothes Rain Stones Blue Depth Ancient Disappear All Time Silver Pale Beaten Unsatisfied Hovering Helm

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“The houses of this country (Maharashtra) are exceedingly strong and built solely of stone and iron. The hatchet-men of the Govt. in the course of my marching do not get sufficient strength and power (i.e. time) TO DESTROY AND RAZE THE TEMPLES OF THE INFIDELS that meet the eye on the way. You should appoint an orthodox inspector (darogha) who may afterwards DESTROY THEM AT LEISURE AND DIG UP THEIR FOUNDATIONS”

Men Way Should May Country Eye Courses House Strong Built Stones Foundation Sufficient Temples Iron Orthodox Leisure Infidel Inspectors Hatchet Maharashtra

Author:Aurangzeb

“Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.”

Enough Eye Running Simple Sun Feet Stones Grass Shade Minnows

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”

Light Eye Together Night Break Darkness Path Violence Stones Chaos Staring Thrown Locks Centre Impatient Break Out Mould

Book:World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

Source: World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender

“Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.”

Eye Suffering Honor Stones Damage Flaws Impurity Precious Stones

Author:Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

“Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!”

Years Looks Book Different Eye Church Five Building Expression Years Ago Stones Twenties Intelligent Former Clock Friendly Towers

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.”

Ifs Life Wells Eye Given Taste Creatures Stones Stuck Mud Stalking Whim Living Creatures

Book:Housekeeping: A Novel

Source: Housekeeping: A Novel

“So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.”

Looks Ends Hands Reality Eye Evil Stones Useless Beast Necks Shakes Pins Trainers Wild Beasts Slits Bladder

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.”

Way Humans Eye Walks Views Company Particular Scene Stones Mark Sticks Absence Nostalgia Familiar Solitary Human Experience Saddest Sticks And Stones

Book:Max

Source: Max

“I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.”

Eye Wanted Stones Towns

Author:Herta Muller

“Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.”

Eye Heaven Prayer Angel Stones Roof Ladders Dungeons Shrines

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“One day I saw with the eyes of my eternity in bliss and without effort, a stone. It tasted sweet, like heavenly herbs.”

Eye Effort Saws Sweet One Day Stones Eternity Bliss Heavenly Herbs

Book:Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg

Source: Meditations with Mechtild of Magdeburg

“I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears; Look right, look left, I dwell alone; I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief No everlasting hills I see; My life is in the falling leaf: O Jesus, quicken me.”

Looks Heart Eye Life Is Fall Jesus Left Grief Too Much Tears Mines My Heart Stones Wit Hills Lifts Leafs Everlasting Numb Falling Leaves

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.”

“All that is, was, and will be. Universe much too big to see. Time and space never ending, disturbing thoughts, questions pending. Limitations of human understanding. Too quick to criticize, obligation to survive, we hunger to be alive. All that is, ever, ever was, will be ever twisting, turning, Through The Never. In the dark, see past our eyes. Pursuit of truth, no matter where it lies. Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens, on a quest, meaning, reason. Come to be, how it begun. All alone in the family of the sun, curiosity teasing everyone. On our home, third stone from the sun.”

“Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.”

Humans Eye Objects Stones Balls Rounds Globes Marvelous Traveler Crystals Seers Human Eyes Teapots Crystal Ball

Book:The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

“I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.”

Knows Looks Children Long Eye Speak Term My Own Wonder Stones Financial Planning Long Term Compelling Rolling Rolling Stones Financial Planning

Author:Chris Matthews

“Never compromise a dream. Do what you must. The fears, beasts, and mountains before you are part of the plan. Stepping stones to a promised land. To a time and place that is so much closer than even you expect. So don't let your eyes deceive you, for even as you read these words, your ship swiftly approaches.”

Inspirational Dream Eye Fear Plans Land Mountain Approach Stones Ships Compromise Beast Deceiving Stepping Stones Promised Land Never Compromise

Book:Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

Source: Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend

“As long as you want to pay to see a band, what makes the band want to get better? Nothing! Really! The Stones are, God knows, horrible beyond horrible, but it doesn't stop the fans from paying money to see them decompose in front of your very eyes.”

Knows Want Long Eye Pay Fans Fronts Band Stones Horrible Get Better God Knows

Author:John Seagall

“What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.”

Eye Tree Stones Perceive Remedy Herbs Dross

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.”

I Can Eye Lying Walks Vision Steps Seeing Journey Land Flower Walking Bed Stones Legs Wander Rough Take Me Thank God Hiking Patches Trekking Strolling Cotton Sauntering Bogs

Author:Beatrix Potter

“The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind, and he died of what he saw there”

Men Mind Eye Saws Stones Died Inward

Book:The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

Source: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld

“Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.”

Eye Mines Mountain Stones Green Lakes Lightning Her Eyes Unfathomable Indescribable Venus In Furs Precious Stones These Eyes Mountain Lakes

Book:Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

Source: Venus in Furs: A Novel ; Letters of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch and Emilie Mataja

“That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.”

Feelings Eye Left Clear Stones Chairs Defining Oleanders

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

Ifs Would Be Eye Lying Sea Stones Blessed Shoes Refuse Boat Throat Being Blessed

Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.”

World Want Book Whole Hands Eye Stones Bottom Smooth Other Worlds Brooks

Author:Katherine Hannigan

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.”

People World Eye Earth Beautiful Moving Night House Sides Millions Tree Shapes Depression Shadow Stones Miles Beautiful Things Closets Drawers Suitcases Bell Jar

Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

“He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up the sides of skyscrapers. He was the Hulk when angry and Spidey the rest of the time. When he felt his heart hurt he turned into something stronger than a little boy, and he grew up this way. A heart that flashed from heart to stone, heart to stone. As I watched I thought of what Grandma Lynn liked to say when Lindsey and I rolled our eyes or grimaced behind her back. "Watch out what faces you make. You'll freeze that way.”

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“Had I known but yesterday what I know today, I’d have taken out your two grey eyes and put in eyes of clay. And had I known but yesterday you’d be no more my own, I’d have taken out your heart of flesh and put in one of stone.”

Knows Heart Two Eye Today My Own Known Taken Stones Flesh Yesterday Grey Clay Grey Eyes

Book:The Dogs of Babel: A Novel

Source: The Dogs of Babel: A Novel

“Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled finger reached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuous thread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blind amphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its end. Its forms are phantoms. The thread alone is real; the thread is life.”

Source: The Firmament of Time: A Library of America eBook Classic

“And Hermione was struggling to her feet in the wreckage, and three red-headed men were grouped on the ground where the wall had blasted apart. Harry grabbed Hermione's hand as they staggered and stumbled over stone and wood. 'No - no - no!' someone was shouting. 'No! Fred! No!' And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.”

Men Stills Hands Eye Lasts Faces Three Laughing Struggle Seeing Feet Brother Wall Red Stones Woods Ghost Shaking Shouting Hermione Kneeling Wreckage Fred Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing May Made Eye Moving Law Dies Stars Justice Blood Mines Creatures Stones Wine Shining Bones Revenge Flesh Teeth Meat Torture Abstract Crush Sooner Or Later Limbs

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I'll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.”

Heart Dream Eye Turns Stuff Poet Waste Stones Green Misery Grass Sheep Desolation Green Grass

Book:The Last Unicorn

Source: The Last Unicorn

“Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old so dying woman. So dead. In the madhouse of the skull and nowhere else. Where no more precautions to be taken. No precautions possible. Cooped up there with the rest. Hovel and stones. The lot. And the eye. How simple all then. If only all could be pure figment. Neither be nor been nor by any shift to be. Gently gently. On. Careful.”

Ifs Eye Simple Taken Dying Pure Stones Careful Confusion Despite Skulls Precaution Madhouses Figments

Book:Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

Source: Company / Ill Seen Ill Said / Worstward Ho / Stirrings Still

“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”

Source: Monologue of a Dog

“All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.”

Said Bigs Eye Voice Magic Stones Lips Curse Shirts Giants Visible Bags Pairs Bob Tied Rolling Cartoon Orange Nerd T Shirt Skulls Glowing Rolling Stones Goofy Dresden Caustic

Author:Jim Butcher

“Qhuinn's eyes shifted away from his buddy--and just happened to measure the distance down to the stone patio below. Hmm . . . doing a swan dive onto all that slate might just get the images of those two out of his head... of course, it would also turn his brain into scrambled eggs, but really, was that such a bad thing?”

Two Might Eye Turns Courses Brain Happened Stones Distance Eggs Broken Heart Bad Things Buddy Swans Slate Hmm Scrambled Eggs

Book:Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

Source: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood

“Arthur’s fingers tighten on the silver-braided hilt: see how naturally it fits his hand! He pulls. The Sword of Britain slides from its stone sheath. The ease with which this is accomplished shines in the wonder in Arthur’s eyes. He truly cannot believe what he has done. Nor can he comprehend what it means.”

Believe Mean Done Hands Eye Wonder Fit Stones Shining Fingers Ease Accomplished Britain Silver Slides Arthur

Author:Stephen R. Lawhead

“I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.”

World Life Eye Universe Water Differences Gone Rain Flow Stones Empty Ears Boundaries Bowls Cactus Stargirl

Book:Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

“You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes.' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk. "Ah, talk . . . " He closes his eyes and smiles. "Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.”

Giving Littles I Can Problem Eye Able Earth Space Answers Pieces Week Feet Arms Sitting Stones Give Me Graves Nine Hills Staring Knees His Eyes Dirt Ponds Overlooking Staring Into Space

Author:Mitch Albom

“wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything. I think this to myself even though I love my daughter. She and I have shared the same body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since. All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.”

Thinking Mind Has Beens Body Eye Born Darkness Mines Daughter Stones Fishes My Daughter Shore Swimming Looking Back Her Eyes Ponds Slippery Love My Daughter Eyes Looking I Love My Daughter

Author:Amy Tan

“They do not need the sun. Who needs the sun when the eyes glow? Darkness. A woolen fog has wrapped the earth, has dropped a heavy curtain. From far away, from beyond the curtain, comes the sound of drops falling on stone. Far, far away - the autumn, people, tomorrow. ("The North")”

People Needs Eye Earth Fall Sound Darkness Sun Tomorrow Stones Heavy Autumn Far Away Fog Curtains

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it. A tiny silver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. I stared at the amber band of sunlight, smiling. The sun had returned. I closed my eyes. I felt Andrius moving close. "I'll see you," he said. "Yes, I will see you," I whispered "I will." I reached into my pocket and squeezed the stone.”

Said Eye Moving Left Felt Lines Walks Sun Five Saws Tree Band Stones Gold Woods Tiny Snow Pockets Silver Horizon Gray Shade Sunlight Amber Shades Of Gray

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of grass could put forth claim to precedence. The very clarity of these articles belied their familiarity, for the eye predicates the whole on some feature or part and here was nothing more luminous than another and nothing more enshadowed and in the optical democracy of such landscapes all preference is made whimsical and a man and a rock become endowed with unguessed kinship.”

Source: Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

“The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before there was humankind, or even forest, there was sound. Sound spread from the source in great circles like those formed when a stone is dropped in a pool. We follow waves of sound from life to life. A dying man’s ears will hear long after his eyes are blind. He hears the sound that leads him to his next life as the Source of All being plucks the harp of creation.”

Men Long Eye Courses Next Stars Sound Dying Creation Source Stones Ears Harmony Blind Wave Spread Bones Flesh Circles Forests His Eyes Pool Humankind Echoes Pluck Harps Next Life

Author:Morgan Llywelyn

“Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails.”

Eye Earth Moving Fall Force Heaven Air Havens Limits Bird Stones Seasons Winter Breathe Foolish Temples Empires Rome Tides Thrones Her Eyes

Book:Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection

Source: Mark of the Lion Gift Collection: Gift Collection

“You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in the sand indicates the tiger's passage; a marsh announces a vein of water; the hibiscus flower, the end of winter. All the rest is silent and interchangeable; trees and stones are only what they are.”

Doe Ends Light Eye Water Walks Tree Flower Stones Silent Winter Sand Print Passages Tigers Veins Marshes

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.”

Ifs Whole Light Eye Faces Black Dark Heard Son Hair Daughter Stones Population Graves Settling Flames Brown Candle Graveyard Firefly Swarms Black Hair Dark Eyes

Book:The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

“When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.”

Want Body Light Eye Beautiful Water Mouths Stones Your Body Call Me

Book:Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

Source: Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs

“Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known”

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