50 phrases about looks and the expression of feelings

They say the eyes are the mirror of the soul. And it is that the look of a person, how he looks at others and the world around him, says a lot about someone's way of thinking. Countless works, poetry and reflections of great interest and beauty have been written about the gaze. That is why in this article we will see a selection of phrases about the gaze, something so important in the social and intellectual life of most people.

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Fifty sentences about looking and looking

Below are a series of great phrases about the look and the act of expressing looking. Most of them refer to the importance of this aspect in non-verbal communication, intimacy and closeness offered by their observation and in how much one can express and understand someone based on he. Many have a romantic character, but you can also find others related to aspects such as innocence or curiosity.

1. The soul that can speak through the eyes, can also kiss with the gaze (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)

This phrase by Bécquer refers to the ease of transmitting emotions, especially when they are intense, through eye contact.

2. Are we human because we look at the stars, or do we look at the stars because we are human? (Neil Gaiman)

The human being has always enjoyed the ability to dream, to wonder about the world and to be amazed by the beauty of what surrounds us.

3. We can have all the means of communication in the world, but nothing, absolutely nothing replaces the look of the human being (Paulo Coelho)

The look is and will continue to be one of the most efficient communication systems when transmitting our thoughts.

4. Exercise your eyes every day by facing the mirror. Your gaze must learn to rest silently and heavily on the other, to hide with speed, to prod, to protest. Or to radiate so much experience and wisdom that your neighbor shakes your hand (Walter Serner)

This phrase expresses the possibility of learning to discipline one's gaze, which can be consciously used for multiple purposes.

5. Many times a word, a look, a gesture is enough to fill the heart of the one we love (Teresa of Calcutta)

Looking someone in the eye makes us bond with him, and nothing compares to the feeling that an act provokes as the fact that someone we love is looking at us.

6. If you look for a long time into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you (Friedrich Nietzsche)

What we continuously observe ends up having an effect on us. The viewpoint and the gaze end up looking at each other, discovering each other.

7. To see clearly, just change the direction of your gaze (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Sometimes we do not stubbornly look at only one side or perspective of things, when to solve them it is enough to change the perspective.

8. Nobody refers to what is in front of our feet. We all look at the stars (Fifth Ennio)

Already in ancient times there was talk of the ability of man to dream and visualize the future.

9. Nobody can lie, nobody can hide anything when they look directly in the eyes (Paulo Coelho)

We can lie with words, but our gaze and the whole of our non-verbal language are difficult to control and manipulate.

10. What is poetry? you say while you nail your blue pupil into my pupil What is poetry! Are you asking me that? Poetry... it's you (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer)

This phrase expresses the deep emotion that arises when our gaze meets that of the loved one.

11. And so many distracted butterflies have died in your gaze that the stars no longer illuminate anything

Through someone's gaze we can see not only positive emotions and joy, but also disappointment and pain.

12. The gaze is possibly the most amazing human courtship technique: the language of the eyes (Helen Fisher)

The gaze has always been used as an element of seduction in the human being, being a very important aspect in expressing attraction, desire and bonding.

13. He who is loyal raises his gaze with humility, and he who is disloyal, with pride (Ramon Llull)

Pride is an aspect that is also reflected in the look, as Ramon Llull tells us.

14. Perhaps there is no greater intimacy than that of two glances that meet with firmness and determination, and simply refuse to part (Jostein Gaarder)

When two people look into each other's eyes and hold their gaze, they express a great deal of information to each other, sharing a moment of intimacy.

15. The important thing is in the look, not in the thing looked (André Gide)

The author of this phrase reflects that the important thing is not what you look at in itself, but how you look at it.

16. When you look into the eyes of another person, whoever it is, and see your own reflected soul, you will realize that you have reached another level of consciousness (Brian Weiss)

Again, this phrase reflects the intimacy that binds those who look into each other's eyes, especially when there is love between them.

17. A look, a sigh, the silence are enough to explain love (Voltaire)

Attraction and love are expressed more often than it seems through non-verbal language.

18. I like people who see life with different eyes from others, who consider things differently than most (Carmen Laforet)

There are multiple perspectives on reality and different ways of interpreting it.

19. Two people who look into each other's eyes do not see their eyes but their gazes (Robert Bresson)

When two people look at each other, it is not the eyes that we intend to look at but what is hidden behind them.

20. You and I don't see things as they are. We see things as we are (Henry Ward Beecher)

It is how we look at what determines the value we place on things.

21. The look is a choice. The viewer decides to focus on something in particular and therefore forcibly chooses to exclude his attention from the rest of his visual field. That is the reason why the gaze, which constitutes the essence of life, is, in the first instance, a rejection (Amélie Nothomb)

This author observes that to look is to focus on something to the exclusion of everything else, look at what interests us.

22. I have always looked to the future, and it was actually a bit difficult to turn my gaze back (Scott McCloud)

The past is past, and we can only live in the present and head to the future.

23. I don't know your name, I only know the look with which you tell me (Mario Benedetti)

The author expresses the importance of the gaze and everything it communicates, which is more relevant than what is said itself. A name is just a label. A look expresses the essence of the person.

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24. The face is the mirror of the soul, and the eyes silently confess the secrets of the heart (Saint Jerome)

Again, it is expressed as our gaze reflects what we think about the world and what surrounds us, no matter how much we try to lie to ourselves.

25. The beauty of things exists in the spirit of those who contemplate them (David Hume)

Hume reflects that it is who looks and how one looks that makes things have one or another value, this being a reflection of ourselves.

26. There is a path between the eyes and the heart that does not pass through the intellect (G.K. Chesterton)

The phrase indicates that our eyes often reflect our emotions without our will and cognition being able to intervene.

27. The world changes if two look at each other and recognize each other (Octavio Paz)

The recognition and appreciation of the other are essential elements that sustain well-being and the struggle to change the world for the better.

28. Thanks to a look, a dream, a memory or a feeling we can come to recognize a soul mate (Brian Weiss)

The looks unite us, and allow the similarities and feelings of one another to be recognized. As the author proposes, we can come to recognize our soul mate.

29. Gazes meet across a crowded room, the spark of attraction ignites. They talk, they dance, they laugh. Neither is looking for a serious relationship but somehow one night can turn into a week, then a month, a year or longer (Zygmunt Bauman)

Attraction and desire, like hostility, are elements that are easily expressed with the look

30. The gaze is the mirror of the soul, where only those who know how to appreciate it can find calm (R.H. Pérez)

Phrase that expresses the need to learn to appreciate the gaze of both one's own and that of others and its value when it comes to knowing oneself.

31. The eyes are the point where soul and body mix (Friedrich Hebbel)

Beautiful phrase that refers to the high emotional expressiveness of the eyes.

32. There are two looks: the look of the body can sometimes forget, but that of the soul always remembers (Alexander Dumas)

This phrase expresses the importance that the human being gives to the gaze, identifying with the interest and the deepest feelings towards the events that we observe.

33. Words are full of falsehood or art, the look is the language of the heart (William Shakespeare)

Another phrase, this time from Shakespeare, that expresses the great truthfulness of our gaze and how it truly reflects what we feel.

34. The first kiss is not given with the mouth, but with the look (Tristan Bernard)

Love towards a person it is observed in the first place in how it is looked at, before even acts or words are crossed.

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35. Oh, but what a bitter thing it is to look at happiness through another man's eyes! (William Shakespeare)

The famous playwright expresses the sadness that comes from being unable to achieve happiness through of something desired and yet see that another manages to achieve the objective that would have made us happy.

36. When I ask you for a look in love, that act is condemned to be unsatisfactory in any way. Because you will never observe me from where I see you (Jacques Lacan)

Even the person we love will never fully know the intensity of what we feel for him, for he will never be able to see himself with our eyes.

37. When I look at the world I am pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic (Carl Rogers)

Rogers expresses the confidence that people are good and capable of improving the world, even when the context is not good.

38. Your vision will become clearer only when you look into your heart… He who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, wakes up (Carl Gustav Jung)

Jung expresses the need to accept himself, who we are and what we feel, as a way to wake up and really live as we should.

39. A look back is worth more than a look forward (Archimedes)

Archimedes proposes with this phrase to look to the past to learn from what happened, instead of jumping wildly into the future without taking into account the successes and mistakes that we ourselves and others have committed before.

40. Life can only be understood looking back, but it has to be lived looking forward (Soren Kierkegaard)

Kierkegaard proposes that we need to learn from the past and analyze this to understand what we live, but focusing on living and what is to come.

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41. There are those who remain silent to hide, those who lower their heads and avoid glances to isolate themselves from others (Boris Cyrulnik)

If the gaze is a way of communicating and relating, avoiding looking implies not doing it and trying to remain hidden and unnoticed.

42. Look to the right and to the left of time and may your heart learn to be calm (Federico García Lorca)

The famous author reflects the need to live in the present calmly, without getting upset or over-worrying about past events or what could happen in the future.

43. Here is my secret. It is very simple: it is not seen well but with the heart (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

It is emotions, hopes and feelings that make us truly see the world and interpret it in a more or less adaptive way.

44. Who does not understand a look, will not understand a long explanation either (Arabic proverb)

Understanding what someone's gaze expresses is a partly innate ability, shared even with other animal species. If we are not able to understand what the look means, what the other person expresses will hardly be fully understood.

45. And even if you did not love me, I would love you for your gloomy look, as the lark wants the new day just for the dew

This phrase tells us about unrequited love, which does not simply disappear because it is not mutual.

46. Little by little we discover who we are through experiences. Looking back, we recognize that what seemed to us the biggest problems occurred during times of greatest growth and self-knowledge (John Demartini)

The way we look at what happens to us varies over time. This change reflects moments of growth and personal improvement.

47. Never limit your gaze on life to previous experience (Ernest Holmes)

The author proposes that the way of seeing the world takes into account not only what we have lived but also the existence of different points of view on it, and not only our own, in addition to our ability to imagine and dream

48. If looks were enough to kill, we would have died long ago (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Not all looks express love. Also hatred and rage can be reflected easily through them.

49. The real journey of discovery does not consist in visiting new landscapes, but in looking with different eyes (Marcel Proust)

Discovering means looking around with hope and the possibility of seeing different perspectives and aspects of what surrounds us, be it in an unknown place or in the small things of our day to day.

50. Your eyes say what your mouth is silent

This last sentence expresses that through our gaze we reflect much more than we think.