Quotes About Closing Your Eyes

#1. ...now open your mind by closing your eyes
see the unseen world within you which lies

From the poem 'The Unseen World

Munia Khan

#2. You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

James Caan

#3. Closing your eyes won't make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head - doesn't this feed the monster? You can't close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. I don't seem to require a lot of sleep. I just - if I get four, five good hours, I'm fine. But sleeping is sort of dull. There's a lot of other good stuff that you can do without just lying down and closing your eyes.

Betty White

#5. If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

Andrew Vachss

#6. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

Haruki Murakami

#7. Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

Morgan Freeman

#8. Running toward danger is foolhardy ... But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.

Brandon Mull

#9. I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!

J.G. Ballard

#10. When life is boring, have a funky dance and watch yourself dancing after closing your eyes.

Debasish Mridha

#11. For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

Lena Dunham

#12. Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that ... use that to navigate.

DJ Spooky

#13. Everything is yours that is seen after closing your eyes.

Vishal Sardhara

#14. God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.

Charles R. Swindoll

#15. What makes the perfect kiss? Closing your eyes when you kiss is important. Or lifting up the leg, but that's more of a girl thing, I'm manly. Passion is good! She brings out the best in me. (Selena)

Justin Bieber

#16. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM

R.v.m.

#17. New York lies
far beyond these islands, this
labyrinth. There,
once you emptied a subway coach
by simply closing your eyes
and chanting a summons
to the mountain gods.

Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Carino

#18. What happens when you shut your eyes?
The images you have been accustomed to look at suddenly disappear.
See through the images by closing your eyes and opening your heart.

J.R. Rim

#19. Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Josemaria Escriva

#20. Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies,
cutting a swathe through the breeze
and gently closing your eyes.

Sanober Khan

#21. A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

Nicholas Lore

#22. Sleep is closing your eyes and trusting you will heal.

Danielle Barone

#23. Spiritual process is not about chanting a mantra or closing your eyes, spiritual process is essentially about enhancing your perception.

Jaggi Vasudev

#24. That's another one of our rules. Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will be even worse the next time you open your eyes.

Haruki Murakami

#25. Horror waits in the shadows, even when you are closing your eyes.

Melissa D. Ellis

#26. Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

Lindsay Wagner

#27. No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

Marianne Williamson

#28. I am with you always. You just have to find me by opening your inner eyes and closing your egocentric mind.

Debasish Mridha

#29. The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

John Maeda

#30. Closing his eyes, he feels the weight of the angel as she straddles his thighs. She leans forward, her breath on his cheek, her lips close to his ear, whispering, 'Remember your promise.

Michael Robotham

#31. The temperature must have been in the nineties, and there seemed to be far, far too much air in the room. It was bunched and crowded, and in your face and eyes, and it made you think the room was a rush-hour tube train, and a lot of extra air had managed to sneak in just as the doors were closing.

Hugh Laurie

#32. Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

Jan Myrdal

#33. You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something ... " His voice trailed off into a wisper as I drifted off.

J. Sterling

#34. Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

John Mayer