Unseeing Quotes

#1. Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

John Baillie

#2. NIGHT. No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.

Elie Wiesel

#3. He wanted to leave his mom and her unseeing eyes. He was the invisible boy looking for the place where no one could find him, where he did not have to feel invisible anymore.

Anne Ursu

#4. What earth is this
so in want of you
they rise up on high
to seek you in heaven?
Look at them staring
at you
right before their eyes,
unseeing, unseeing, blind.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#5. Is there a rarer being,
Is there a fairer sphere
Where the strong are not unseeing,
And the harvests are not sere;
Where, ere the seasons dwindle
They yield their due return;
Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
While the flames of youth still burn?

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#6. It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges ... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives.

Faye J Crosby

#7. There is one other thing to know ... when you have expressed yourself to the fullest, then and only then will it dawn upon you that everything has already been expressed, not in words alone but in deed, and that all you need really do is say Amen!

Henry Miller

#8. My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

Darynda Jones

#9. It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Edith Sitwell

#10. Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet, ...
The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak
Our selves unseen, unseeing!

Edmond Rostand

#11. The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

Mark Edmundson

#12. Relationships are leverage. If you give value to someone else first, you have leverage.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#13. She looked at me then everything emptied out of her eyes and they looked like the eyes in statues blank and unseeing and serene put

William Faulkner

#14. What a frail thing a human being is - and without the Passenger, that is all I was, a poor imitation of a human being. Weak, soft, slow and stupid, unseeing, unhearing and unaware, helpless, hopeless, and harried.

Jeff Lindsay

#15. But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy expanded.
It seemed there was such a thing as a broken heart.

Sarah MacLean

#16. I lay on my back and stared up at that unseeing, uncaring sky. I doubted God lived up there; I doubted heaven was up there, too.
God and heaven were down there on the ground, in the gardens, in the forests, in the parks, on the seashores, on the lakes, and riding the highways, going somewhere!

V.C. Andrews

#17. Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.

Virginia Woolf

#18. When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.

George Stevens

#19. See as much as you can see, I guess. Rachel Carson said most of us go through life "unseeing." I do that some days ... I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have.

Jim Lynch

#20. Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

Paulo Coelho

#21. Chantel made a comment on your profile
As you walk in life's path, there is joy, sorrow, challenge, and change. You will have confrontation, so you must be ready to handle whatever comes your way.

Saint Matthew's Churches

#22. One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God.

Bonar Law

#23. It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

John Phillips Marquand

#24. Sixteen unseeing stone of disheveled male slammed into her; Robin was knocked off her feet and catapulted backwards, handbag flying, arms windmilling, towards the void beyond the lethal staircase.

Robert Galbraith

#25. Whom first we love, you know, we seldom wed.

Hazel Felleman

#26. I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. Adversity is the evil twin of reward.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox