Stare Quotes

“He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.”
― Baruch De Spinoza, Ethics

“Standing there
are walls and windows, staring at me.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“They look because she's lovely but they stare because she is love.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that smile that seems to knock you and tell you how pathetic you are? That's the smile I was smiling.”
― Markus Zusak, Underdog

“Do not avert your eyes.
It is important
that you see this.
It is important that you feel
this.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She was sleeping on the bed like a novel that is yet to be read and he sat on the floor, reading her, moving his fingers through her hair and staring at her face like she was magic that none ever understood.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Don't come, I was thinking now. Wherever you are, stay there. Because with her reduced to a fantasy, I could imagine a wonderful meeting. I could see her smiling, tossing her red-haired head, staring at me with inquisitive eyes. I'd say something meaningful to her, and she'd melt for me. Reality could not live up to that.”
― Scott Adlerberg, Graveyard Love

“I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too.”
― Akshay Vasu

“You can never really know where exactly people are looking at! At the place they are staring at? Or at their past? Or at their future?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The entire room turns and stares. There’s no doubt what they see—ripped jeans, a black T-shirt, tattoos and earrings. I don’t care what they see. All I care about is what she sees: a person unwelcomed or the guy she loves.
A tear flows down her face, and the hand wrapped at her waist tells me she’s paralyzed. In a long gold ball gown that’s more skirt than dress, Rachel is truly the angel I believe her to be. A man in a tuxedo stands. “Son, I think you have the wrong room.”
“No. I don’t.” I stride between the tables, keeping my eyes locked with hers. The closer I get, the more she straightens. Her hand falls from her stomach, and the tear clears from her face. Rachel gazes at me as if I’m a dream. I extend my hand, palm out. “I need help.”
Her blue eyes lose their glaze, and the hue of violet I love so much returns. “So do I.” ”
― Katie McGarry, Crash into You

“Leaders don’t hide good news from their followers. As long as they discover knowledge, they share knowledge. They leave part of them with people they meet; hence they are hardly missed when they are gone.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Much, much later. when I am back home and being treated for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I will be enabled to see what was going on in my mind immediately after 11 August.

I am still capable of operating mechanically as a soldier in these following days. But operating mechanically as a soldier is now all I am capable of.

Martin says he is worried about me. He says I have the thousand-yard stare'.

Of course, I cannot see this stare. But by now we both have more than an idea what it means.

So, among all the soldiers here, this is nothing to be ashamed of. But as it really does just go with the territory we find ourselves in. it is just as equally not a badge of honour.

Martin is seasoned enough to never even think this. but I know of young men back home, sitting in front of war films and war games, who idolise this condition as some kind of mark of a true warrior. But from where I sit, if indeed I do have this stare, this pathetically naive thinking is a crock of shit. Because only some pathetically naive soul who had never felt this nothingness would say something so fucking dumb.

You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person.
There is no feeling any more, because to feel any emotion would also be to beckon the overwhelming blackness from you. My mind has now locked all this down. And without any control of this self-defence mechanism my subconscious has operated. I do not feel any more.

But when I close my eyes. I see the dead Taliban looking into this blackness. And I see the Afghan soldier's face staring into it, singing gently as he slips into another world. And I see Dave Hicks's face. shaking gently as he tries to stay awake in this one.

With this, I lift myself up, sitting foetal and hugging my knees on my sleeping mat.”
― Jake Wood, Among You: The Extraordinary True Story of a Soldier Broken By War

“I tend to think my eye's vision is still 20/20, because they mind their own business.”
― Anthony Liccione

“She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied.”
― Akshay Vasu

“Am lucky my cloud can't store all my chat..me i don't keep/stare our chat”
― DJ Tizo gh

“I just feel I ran a lot while trying to escape from my demons. Today when I look around I am still in the same glass house, where they are all crawling on those glass walls and staring at me.”
― Akshay Vasu, The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams

“If you no longer stare at the sky at nights, it means a very important question is dead in your head: Who are we?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I was beginning to understand why Harold didn't like being around large numbers of people; if you were at all different, people were apt to stare.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Everyone has weaknesses. They are generally revealed in the patterns of mistakes they make. Knowing what your weaknesses are and staring hard at them is the first step on the path to success.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“You don’t miss great leaders because their impacts and footprints are always staring at you in the face.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“Cómo soportaba él los ojos de la muchacha y revolvía los suyos contra la cabeza juvenil, escapando de allí para escarbar en la tormenta de la noche, para adherir a su mirada la intensidad del cielo y derramarla, imponerla en aquel rostro de niña que lo observaba inmóvil y sin expresión, dejando perder sin quererlo, sin saber, sin poder evitarlo, entregando a su cara seria y fatigada de hombre la dulzura y la humildad adolescente de las mejillas pecosas y del cuello, desde el paisaje ennegrecido del jardín, atrás de la ventana.”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, Cuentos completos

“Jak mawiał Swami Bodhidharma: "nie możesz mieć żadnej nowej rzeczy, dopóki nie pozbędziesz się starych rzeczy". Innymi słowy, kiedy nic ci nie idzie, może należy spojrzeć na dany problem z innej strony.”
― Louis Chunovic

“(...) wyłącznie to chyba robią na tych wsiach, patrzą się na innych, co za szaleństwo.”
― Adrian Skoczkowski, Trel w koronie

“Arăta deplorabil, ar fi trebuit să-l taie detașat, în deplină liniște interioară, dar atunci sufletul său fusese răvășit. Îl privi un timp, apoi se hotărî să-l folosească cum era. Dacă asta era starea de spirit la care sfârșitul drumului, să se resemneze și să ia lucrurile ca atare.”
― Ken'ichi Yamamoto, Enigma Rikyū

“I had to remember not to stare. It can be hard not to stare at happy people. They are mesmerizing somehow.”
― Katherine Faulkner, Greenwich Park

“The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there.”
― Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

“He gazed at her sideways. 'You shouldn't stare at me like that.'

'Then how should I stare?'

'You shouldn't stare at me at all.' He abruptly looked away.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“And looking away didn't save me from Vale's stare, because I could feel his eyes the way one can sense a wolf stalking them in the forest.

Except I wanted to be caught.”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses