With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
Eric Hoffer

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
Ludwig van Beethoven

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
Michelangelo

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.
Michelangelo

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.
Heraclitus

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
Pope John XXIII

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
Thomas Merton

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
Thomas Merton

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
John Locke

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
W. E. B. Du Bois

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero