People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Soren Kierkegaard

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
Soren Kierkegaard

I am a part of all that I have seen.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.
Chuck Norris

Psychoanalysis. Almost went three times - almost. Then I decided what was peculiar about me was probably what made me successful. I've seen some very talented actors go into analysis and really lose it.
Bette Davis

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
Bette Davis

I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I.
Janis Joplin

Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?"
Rudyard Kipling

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce

They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.
Bud Abbott

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
Calvin Coolidge

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust