Top 79 Shut Your Eyes Quotes
#1. Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes
and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
Soren Kierkegaard
#2. The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind.
Terry Pratchett
#4. Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.
Joyce Carol Oates
#5. Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Aristophanes
#6. She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
Frederick Buechner
#7. You can close your mind to things if something is important enough. It works very well. You make yourself very small, shut your eyes tight and say a big word over and over again until you're save.
Tove Jansson
#8. What? You can't knit in the dark? Stuff and nonsense; anybody can. Shut your eyes. Knit one stitch. Open your eyes and look at the stitch; it's all right. Shut your eyes and knit two stitches. Open them. Shut them. Knit three stitches. Falling off a log is no comparison.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#10. If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried.
Richard Castle
#11. If your determination to shut your eyes will carry you as far as this, Cornelius," said
J.K. Rowling
#12. Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#13. Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#14. 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
#15. Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbelief.
Jess Walter
#16. Privacy,is what you shut your mouth about,Denial is what you shut your eyes against.
Karin Lowachee
#17. You have only to creep into a secluded corner or into a crocodile, to shut your eyes, and you immediately devise a perfect millennium for mankind.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#18. Oh, go away! You're in my eyes," said John in a loud voice.
"Sorry!" said the sunlight. "I must move from East to West in a day. Sorry! Shut your eyes and you won't see me.
P.L. Travers
#20. If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
J.M. Barrie
#21. Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
Rumi
#22. Don't go to sleep now, for you have been awakened. Don't shut your eyes, or you will put out the light. Stay awake to the power and force that guides and protects your divine essence.
Debbie Ford
#23. To shut your eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air.
Anthony Doerr
#24. Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes.
Ray Charles
#25. The love between people and especially between mothers and children doesn't end. It flows like a river through the world. Shut your eyes and you can feel it rising.
Eli Gottlieb
#26. Think you've got knocker fever. Come in to the inn tonight and get it cured up." "Maybe that's it," said Adam. "But I never took much satisfaction in a whore." "It's all the same," Charles said. "You shut your eyes and you can't tell the difference.
John Steinbeck
#27. When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.
Shannon Hale
#28. Truth is like light; you can shut your eyes to it, but it is ever before you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.
John Macmurray
#30. Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills.
Roger Crawford
#31. You like rock?
Little boy, I'm not your friend. I'm not your Dark-Hunter and I'm not your friggin' date. You only speak to me when I ask you a question. Otherwise you keep your mouth shut, your eyes off me, and you might live long enough to get me to the French Quarter. (Zarek)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#32. Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
Samuel Hopkins Adams
#33. 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
#34. Shut your eyes and you can often see more; block your ears and you can often hear more, but close your mind and you may never know more.
Barry Cheskin
#36. The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.
Amit Ray
#38. And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies
Is a wee one's trundle-bed;
So shut your eyes while Mother sings
Of wonderful sights that be,
And you shall see the beautiful things
As you rock on the misty sea.
Eugene Field
#39. For it is a choice, I think, to close the heart, just as it is a choice to open it. It is a choice to look at what distresses you, and a choice to shut your eyes. It is a choice to hold tight your pain, or else let it slip your grasp, set it free to make its mark upon the world.
Beth Underdown
#40. Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ...
Katherine Anne Porter
#41. he felt so sleepy he began to cry again. "What is the matter?" asked the Huge One. "I am sleepy and I have no bed, sir." "But if you are sleepy why don't you just sleep?" said the Huge One. "Shut your eyes and go to sleep.
Marjorie Flack
#42. Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Keariene Muizz
#43. When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Because of meat."
"It's for his tiger," said the cook.
Arin palmed his face, eyes squeezed shut. "Your tiger."
"He's very particular," said Roshar.
"You can't bring the tiger to the banquet.
Marie Rutkoski
#45. Dear little Bog-Face,
Why are you so cold?
And why do you lie with your eyes shut?
You are not very old.
I am a Child of this World
And a Child of Grace,
And Mother, I shall be glad when it is over,
I am Bog-Face.
Stevie Smith
#46. Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open.
John Jakes
#47. My eyes ran away from his. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Your blush says otherwise."
"It's - it's just hot in here."
His grin deepened. "Yes, it is."
"Oh, shut up.
A&E Kirk
#48. You sound disappointed." Shane's voice came out faint and thready, and he put his head back against the cushions as he squeezed his eyes shut. "Damn, I hate this. I really do."
I know," Oliver said. "Your blood reeks of it.
Rachel Caine
#49. Eyes," he snapped. "On me, Mia. Always on me. You don't come with your eyes closed. I want to see everything you have when I'm inside you. You don't ever shut me out.
Maya Banks
#50. Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut.
Shelagh Delaney
#51. It sure as hell wasn't saying the first, because I told my stupid heart right then as I sat on the floor with my eyes squeezed shut, Heart, I'm not playing with your shit today, tomorrow, or a year from now. Quit it.
Mariana Zapata
#52. It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one.
Nora Roberts
#53. You're not the kind of person to just randomly fall in love. You're way too . . ."
My eyes shoot to his. "Too what?"
"Well, you know, emotionally closed off."
"I will emotionally close off every orifice in your face if you don't shut up about this right now.
Rachel Morgan
#54. Turn around, and keep your eyes closed shut, For if the Gorgon, Medusa, does appear, and you see her, You would never be able to return upward.
Dante Alighieri
#55. You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
Dr. Seuss
#56. I want to memorize the way your eyes clench shut and you bite down on your lip, so that I can sketch your expression from memory. I want to know the exact angle of the way your neck curves, and how many times your heart beats a minute. I want to know everything.
Cora Carmack
#57. Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.
C.S. Lewis
#58. If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot make a true map of a city by sitting in your bedroom with your eyes shut and drawing lines upon paper according to impulse.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#59. If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought?
Katherine Paterson
#61. Then you stay down here and I'll sleep in your bed."
His eyes went from half-shut to fully-open, regarding her sharply. "Julia, you don't sleep in that bed until I'm in it with you.
Kristen Ashley
#62. The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut.
"Your dragon is pleased," she said.
"Indeed, he is.
Susan Scott
#64. As any parent can tell you, it's better to keep your mouth shut and your eyes open when you go looking for kids who are being unreasonably quiet. They're probably doing something they don't want you to see, and if they hear you coming, they'll hide the evidence. I
Elizabeth Bear
#65. Once your eyes get opened to pacifism, you can't shut them again. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. You may bitterly regret the fact that you happen to be one of the tiny minority of the human race who have caught this angle of vision, but you can't help it.
Muriel Lester
#66. There can only be absolute freedom or none at all. And if you can't have either, then maybe it's better to keep your eyes
shut.
Liv Olteano
#67. DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
Barbara Sher
#68. I press my eyes shut and will the thoughts away. But they refuse to comply, and instead, they lodge themselves in the crevasses of my brain, poking out just enough that I know they're still with me, like a tiny splinter in your baby toe that gnaws away at you with every step you take.
Allison Winn Scotch
#69. For the first stretch of road Olivia's eyes were sealed shut, her breath held hostage in her lungs.
"You might want to open your eyes," Wesley called back knowingly, his muffled voice breaking through both of their helmets. "And don't forget to breathe.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#70. I like your hair down." He twisted his fingers through the curls.
My eyes drifted shut as I relaxed next to him. "It's a mess. I need to get a haircut."
Hayden's fingers stilled. "No. You shouldn't cut your hair. It's beautiful."
I would never cut my hair. Ever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#71. i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut
Rupi Kaur
#72. And I'm here to tell you that, as long as you keep your eyes shut, it's really not that bad.
David Sedaris
#73. You better ignore this.
You better staple your eyes shut
and put pot-lids over your ears
and pinch your nose with vice grips
and cement your mouth shut
with real cement and while
you're at it or in it or whatever
cut off your hands for good measure
B.J. Ward
#74. My long, wavy brown hair cascaded down my back. Thank God for my Puerto Rican daddy and his thick head of hair. My mama's hair won't grow past her ears. "If you don't stop checking yourself out, I'm gonna superglue your damn eyes shut.
Kris Bell
#75. The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
CM Punk
#76. Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
#77. Will you ever use common sense, I hear it comes pretty cheap. And if I speak more clearly, if I make more sense. Will you shut your mouth. You won't come across so dense. Close your eyes and then you free your mind.
Tegan Quin
#78. Stop.
Breathe those useless breaths. Drop this piece of life you're holding to your lips. Where are you? How long have you been here? Stop now. You have to stop.
Squeeze shut your stinging eyes, and take another bite.
Isaac Marion
#79. Keeping your eyes shut to envision your dreams does nothing to create the reality you're being told to build by your subconscious.
Jes Fuhrmann
