Quotes about Gaze
He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Almost painfully he took his eyes from her.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
He held her hand and she gave him such a look that he whispered her name aloud.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
She laughed again, as if she said something very witty, and held my hand for a moment, looking up into my face, promising that there was no one in the world she so much wanted to see. That was a way she had.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If she felt my gaze upon her, I assume she was accustomed to being stared at, just as I was used to wanting what I could not have.
- Alice Hoffman
Their eyes met and held. As he passed, Matthias spoke low. The lady's mine.
- Francine Rivers
Ptolemy said, "Mortal though I be, yea, ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at night's starry domain of heaven, then no longer on earth I stand: I touch the Creator and my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Send home my long strayed eyes to me,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
- John Donne
I fix mine eye on thine, and there Pity my picture burning in thine eye...
- John Donne
In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger
- Edith Wharton
Our unveiled gaze receives and reflects the brightness of God until we are gradually turned into the image that we reflect. —2 Corinthians 3:18
- Fr. Richard Rohr
depiction of God in The Trinity seriously, we have to say, "In the beginning was the Relationship." This icon yields more fruits the more you gaze on it. Every part of it was obviously meditated on with great care: the gaze between the Three; the deep respect between them as they all share from a common bowl. And note the hand of the Spirit pointing toward the open and fourth place at the table! Is the Holy Spirit inviting, offering, and clearing space? If so, for what?
- Fr. Richard Rohr