Quotes of Gaze - somelinesforyou

“ He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. ”

- Nietzsche

“ If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ 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

“ If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back 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. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ He who fights monsters should look into it that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss also gazes into you. ”

- Friedrich Neitzsche

“ Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors and then retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. ”

- Adriaan Kortlandt

“ Verily, the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone, and a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness. ”

- Nikos Kazantzakis

“ Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them. ”

- Samuel Pepys

“ One senses the figures as passing by the tree line and, caught in the presence of the wall, turning to gaze upon it almost as a vision. ”

- Frederick Hart

“ She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance. ”

- P. D. James

“ Who among us has not gazed at a painting of Jackson Pollack's and thought: What a piece of crap? ”

- Rob Long

“ Still, still my eye will gaze long fixed on thee, Till I forget that I am called a man, And at thy side fast-rooted seem to be, And the breeze comes my cheek with thine to fan. ”

- Jones Very

“ Flowers are God's thoughts of beauty taking form to gladden mortal gaze. ”

- Anonymous

“ A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Before I go out to take a picture of someone, I just stop at the city desk and say, 'Do you want him gazing out toward the sunset or picking his nose?'. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ”

- Michael Cibenko

“ Why dost thou gaze upon the sky? O that I were yon spangled sphere! Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here. ”

- Sir Thomas More

“ How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony. ”

- Leopold von Sacher Masoch

“ No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world. ”

- Edwin Markham
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