Top 100 Quotes About Eyes Open
#1. O, Great Spirit, open my eyes, open heart's wings, open my ears to your voice in all things.
Rumi
#2. Keep your eyes open and you'll see more than you ever dreamed of.
Marty Rubin
#3. Dream with both eyes open, both ears listening, and both hands working.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#4. Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.
Sarah Ockler
#5. Keep your eyes open to all the needs you see around you.
Caitlin Crosby
#6. When the time came to leap in faith, whether you had your eyes open or closed or screamed all the way down or not made no practical difference.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#7. Rose once told me about this poem she'd read. There was this line, 'If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.' You know what I'm afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won't know.
Richelle Mead
#8. Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.
Frederick Lenz
#9. Even though this isn't going to be fun, it is where you are going. So hold on. But keep your eyes open or you might miss the good parts.
Liz Lamoreux
#10. He leaned in. "Kiss me, one last time."
I called up a distant memory of his lips against mine. But this time, I kept my eyes open.
When he pulled back, Logan passed his hand over my hair. "Don't forget me, okay?
Jeri Smith-Ready
#11. Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, too, halfway screaming, halfway begging. Offering themselves to him, because the call was irresistible despite being recognizable. They were moths who know what the light is, know what it will do to them. And come anyway.
Glen Hirshberg
#12. Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#13. It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.
Shirley Jackson
#14. Bright morning comes; the bloody-fingered dawn with zealous light sets seas of air ablaze and bends to earth another false beginning. My eyes open like cornflowers, stick, crusted with their own stale dew, then take that light.
Iain Banks
#15. The red flags are usually there, you just have to keep your eyes open wider than your heart.
April Mae Monterrosa
#16. Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#17. I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it.
Alex George
#18. S ometimes I wish I was n o t alive. B u t I don't know how to die. Ain' no plug to pull out. 'N no matter how bad I fee l my heart don't stop beating and my eyes open in the morning.
Anonymous
#20. I shiver and Tom wakes. It's light enough to see his eyes open.
"Are you cold?" he says. "Baby, are you cold?"
He turns so that his arms are around me again. Baby, are cold?-and the ball of hurt inside me swells.
Alison McGhee
#21. Each of you must decide where you stand. All we ask is that you refuse to kneel. You are the people. You have the power. Open your eyes. Open your minds. Then close the fingers on your hand.
Jay Kristoff
#22. Walking into danger with your eyes open and your mind clear is a sign of bravery, not foolishness. Well, sometimes foolishness. But as long as you walk back out again, you can pretend that part doesn't matter.
Seanan McGuire
#23. Eyes open wide, looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye.
Richard Ashcroft
#24. Every day from the crack of dawn," he said- and i completed the rest, "until we can't keep our eyes open one second longer
James Patterson
#25. Lie on your back and keep your eyes open. If they start to close, focus on keeping them open. This trick works because it is the opposite of "trying to fall asleep," which is impossible.
Deepak Chopra
#26. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
Yvon Chouinard
#27. Do you think I should stay away from him?"
I asked in a scratchy voice.
Todd took a long time to answer. "My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: 'For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.'
William S. Burroughs
#29. If something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
Norton Juster
#30. In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
Mario Puzo
#31. Keep your eyes open, take risks, and whenever possible, don't think of things the way everyone else does.
Jon Daniels
#32. My eyes open after my mind. All eyes always do.
Craig Stone
#33. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.
Tehya Sky
#34. What the wise see eyes closed is greater than what the ignorant see both eyes open.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#35. If she was in a teaching mood she wasn't in a hitting mood. Like sneezing and keeping your eyes open, Mrs. H couldn't do both at once.
Catherynne M Valente
#36. Going to prison is like dying with your eyes open.
Bernard Kerik
#37. His one big plan, oceanography, had gone sour on him; and then his plan turned into keeping his eyes open until something better came along.
Rainbow Rowell
#38. At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.
Violette Leduc
#39. I don't like days that end without answers. I'll just keep my eyes open and we'll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don't have time to laugh.
Stacey Donovan
#40. Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
Wallace Stegner
#41. Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.
Frederick Buechner
#42. I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.
Kenneth Branagh
#43. Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.
David Nicholls
#44. All of the previously described techniques can be practiced with your eyes open and closed. Most people find that it is easier initially to practice meditation with their eyes closed.
Frederick Lenz
#45. So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.
Dusty Baker
#46. He leaned over and inhaled the pillow Gray had been on. Sick freak. She ought to suffocate him with it the moment he fell asleep. But Nolan lay there with his eyes open, staring at the ceiling. Murder's
Nikki Jefford
#47. Belief isn't always easy.
But this much I have learned
if not enough else
to live with my eyes open.
Mary Oliver
#48. I read usually in the morning, in my kitchen at breakfast - a short reading time, usually poetry. I read in bed every night. I usually get in bed pretty early with a book, and I read until I can't prop my eyes open anymore - sometimes rather late.
Sue Monk Kidd
#49. When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#50. The world is here only as long as you look for it, only as long as you keep your eyes open.
David James Poissant
#51. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.
Richard Castle
#52. Recognizing beauty isn't optimism. It's living with your eyes open.
Brodi Ashton
#53. The man who sees an opportunity and does nothing is asleep with his eyes open.
Brian Herbert
#54. Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.
John Patrick Hickey
#55. Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.
Iyanla Vanzant
#56. The greatest idea, the greatest challenge, is to close your critical eyes, open your beautiful heart- and truly experience the lives and perspectives of others in a book.
Kimberly Elizabeth Gardenhire
#57. I slept in the car a lot on those trips. To this day, anytime I am in the car for an extended period of time, I get so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open.
Judy Greer
#58. I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.
Tammara Webber
#59. Most people don't notice what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: for God's sake, keep your eyes open.
William S. Burroughs
#60. I would love to meet my soul mate. I'm always kind of keeping my eyes open for somebody.
Holly Madison
#61. The heart," he said, "is half criminal. The trick is to be vigilant. To keep your eyes open, so if you get a look at this side of yourself you can make a positive ID.
Adam Ross
#62. Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.
Orison Swett Marden
#63. I forced my eyes open and saw the image that's haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day, in my nightmares.
Liz Thebart
#64. We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.
Harry Edwards
#65. Tennis is a funny game, and it takes a life-time of keeping one's eyes open on the circuit to have any chance of understanding the strange phenomena that exist in our exciting sport!
Sania Mirza
#66. I desperately miss my girls when I am working, and I often feel guilty, but also feel the journey I am on is for them too. When I am on my 16th hour of a day and can barely keep my eyes open, they drive me forward.
Mika Brzezinski
#67. You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.
Orson Scott Card
#68. If I close my eyes, I see things better than with my eyes open.
Henri Matisse
#69. The night is darkest just before dawn. But keep your eyes open; if you avert your eyes from the dark, you'll be blind to the rays of a new day...So keep your eyes open, no matter how dark the night ahead may be.
Hideaki Sorachi
#70. Try seeing your world and yourself this way, eyes open to whatever is before you, mind free of dichotomies. Are you good or bad, fragile or tough, wise or foolish? Yes. And so am I.
Martha N. Beck
#71. If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.
Haruki Murakami
#73. But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.
Norton Juster
#74. Our hands full or not:
The same abundance.
Our eyes open or shut:
The same light.
Yves Bonnefoy
#75. Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.
Rian Johnson
#76. What the world needs most is openness: Open hearts, open doors, open eyes, open minds, open ears, open souls.
Robert Muller
#77. We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#78. Why do you think people close their eyes when they kiss? Think about it. In the real world, if you saw someone an-inch-and-a-half away, coming at you with their eyes open and their lips puckered, you'd scream. It's alarming.
Paul Reiser
#79. If one keeps one's eyes open, it is possible to see things in many different ways.
Cathy Hapka
#80. The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.
Donald Berwick
#81. From birth to death man is a long sleep, sometimes dreaming with eyes closed, sometimes dreaming with eyes open, but dreaming all the same, all the time.
Rajneesh
#82. Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#83. Ty did his best to keep his eyes open, watching as he disappeared between Zane's lips. He wanted nothing more than to come down Zane's throat. It was barely a matter of minutes with the visual stimulation, and Ty was soon gasping and tugging at Zane's hair in warning. Zane
Abigail Roux
#84. I still try to keep my eyes open. I'm always on the lookout for antlion traps in sandy soil, monarch pupae near milkweed, skipper larvae in locust leaves. These things are utterly common, and I've not seen one
Annie Dillard
#85. I was moving at the speed of a three-legged turtle, so it took a while to blink my eyes open, and even then it was just a thin crack.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#86. Whether you made your choices with your eyes open or closed, they're made. It's not time to regret them; it's time to live with the consequences.
Sarah Beth Durst
#87. We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel that we already know something in its totality, then we fail to keep our ears and eyes open to that which may expand or even changes that which we so zealously think we know.
Madeleine L'Engle
#88. I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open."
Michael Almereyda
#89. Romeo had the attention span of a slice of bread.
Which is none at all.
Every time I start to explain something, it's like not only his eyes glazed over, but his entire body. At one point, I wondered if it were possible for him to be asleep with his eyes open.
And God, he smelled good.
Cambria Hebert
#90. Keep your eyes open. Look at the world without prejudice, pay attention to your sources, and decide for yourself where the truth lies. That is the greatness of the path I'm offering you.
Javier Sierra
#91. You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there ... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
Kate Elliott
#92. Always keep your eyes open. Keep watching. Because whatever you can see can inspire you.
Grace Coddington
#93. Some parts of Florida are filled with real magic. You just have to keep your eyes open. Ah, for the mermaids of Weeki Wachee ... Follow me, this way. Everywhere
Neil Gaiman
#94. When I fuck you, Gemma, I want your eyes open, looking right at me. I've never hidden who I am from anyone I've touched, and I won't start with you.
Ella Frank
#95. People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.
Paul Auster
#96. I am a total zombie just after I wake up. It takes me half an hour even to get my eyes open. Ask anyone who knows me. I can't see; I can't talk properly; I can't do anything without help. The only think I can do properly is think. And I know how to exploit my condition. I've had years of practice.
Diana Wynne Jones
#97. The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you - you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.
Cheryl Richardson
#98. Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.
Eva Gabrielsson
#99. If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.
Paula Deen
#100. However stupid the choice seemed, Shay had made it with her eyes open, and had respected Tally's choice to stay.
Scott Westerfeld
