90 phrases about looks (and their meaning)
The gift of sight is very important and with it we can do much more than simply observe the world around us.
With a glance we can be able to perform countless actsFrom signaling to someone or checking on a specific issue.
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Phrases about looks
The gift of sight is undoubtedly one of the greatest gifts that humanity can possess, and how we we relate to it and the information we receive through it makes us the person we are today from today.
Regarding this gift and everything we can do with it, we have made a selection of 90 phrases about looks, so that we are a little more aware of its vital importance and its hidden meanings.
1. The words are full of falsehood or art; the look is the language of the heart. (William Shakespeare)
With a simple glance you can transmit many feelings.
2. The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with its eyes. (Gustavo Adolfo Becquer)
With a simple look we can say many things to our lover.
3. When things cannot be said, the looks are loaded with words.
Using our gaze we can communicate very well between individuals.
4. Beauty does not look, it's just look. (Albert Einstein)
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
5. Some stares are so strong they can break down walls.
With a glance we can instill fear or encouragement, as we wish.
6. 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)
The look of a person can be the sexiest or most attractive point of him. Bécquer, in one of the phrases about the most famous looks.
7. Every time I look at you I remember that I can never stop loving you. (Hafsa Shah)
The person we love the most we want to always have in our eyes.
8. The demeanor of my beloved is so gentle, so lovable when she greets her, that every tongue remains mute and her gaze captivates everyone. (Dante Alighieri)
A penetrating gaze can be highly intimidating.
9. Every time I look at the Moon, I feel like I'm in a time machine. (Buzz Aldrin)
When we see something that brings us memories for a second, we can re-feel the emotions of those moments long ago.
10. He took a step down, avoiding any long gaze at her as one avoids long gazes at the Sun, to see her as the Sun looks, without looking. (Leo Tolstoy)
There are things that can be so blinding that our eyes cannot rest on them.
11. Would it be dangerous not to look when being looked at? (Helen Oyeyemi)
The cross-glances are commonly the preludes to what can lead to a relationship.
12. I got lost in your green ocean eyes. And I'm drowning in the sweetest desire for your warm gaze, wave after wave with no chance of survival. (Veronika Jensen)
The look of our beloved can be totally captivating.
13. In the street, the look of desire is furtive or threatening. (Mason Cooley)
When we are surrounded in a social environment, glances usually flow and indicate the intentions of others with respect to us.
14. When the eyes had died in the look of him, the heart had died in the radiance of him. (Anthony Liccione)
Feelings can be sensed many times in the eyes of others.
15. Loneliness: a sweet absence of gazes. (Milan Kundera)
When we feel alone even surrounded by people, our gaze will not meet anyone else's.
16. Do not pretend anymore, do not hide the excessive hunger of me that burns in your eyes. (Antonio Gala)
The person we love can intuit in our gaze the intentions we have for him or her.
17. Every time he looked at her he felt brighter inside, and she longed to keep her attention, to hold her gaze. (Jessica Khoury)
When someone interests us, we always seek their gaze and attention, to know what possibilities we have with that person to become something more.
18. As we grow, we raise our gaze higher and higher, and then sometimes we bring it to our knees, but all is not lost; what we find in the ground can be very valuable and precisely what we need. (Michael Leunig)
With our gaze we can show our personality and self-esteem, which we often reflect with the attitude of our gaze.
19. Aging is like climbing a great mountain: while climbing the forces diminish, but the gaze is freer, the view broader and more serene. (Ingmar Bergman)
The look is something that never changes throughout our lives, an imperishable part of the person we are.
20. I've always looked into the future, and it was actually a bit difficult to turn my gaze back. (Scott McCloud)
Knowing how to look to the future is a metaphor that encourages us to be positive and persevering in our lives.
21. Nobody refers to what is in front of our feet; we all look at the stars. (Fifth Ennio)
In this quote, Quinto Ennio refers to the dreams that many of us have of greatness, economic or spiritual.
22. The first kiss is not given with the mouth, but with the look. (Tristan Bernard)
The look is the first contact that we normally have between people and therefore it is always the first step in a relationship.
23. Heaven means an infinite movie to me. I never tire of observing what is happening up there. (K. D. Lang)
Observing the world around us is undoubtedly a wonderful thing that we can do using our sense of sight.
24. Your work will occupy a large part of your life and it is very unfortunate that you are not satisfied with your work. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found one yet, keep looking for it, never settle and always follow your heart. (Steve Jobs)
We must always look for a way to prosper in our life, because the goal that we all pursue is always to achieve a better life.
25. You have two eyes and also two ears, but you only have one mouth. This is so because you are actually supposed to observe and listen more than you speak. (Lucca Kaldahl)
Many times we can learn more from someone by observing him than by talking to him, since non-verbal language plays a great trick in our favor or against us depending on how we express ourselves.
26. What good is attention to you? What's the use of looking? People are always capable of looking at things, yet they should be looking. I try to see the things that I look at. (Patrick Rothfuss)
To see something we really must pay attention to it, because if our gaze is not a carrier of attention, we will not really be seeing anything.
27. Our personality is what arises when we believe that no one is looking at us. (H. Jackson Brown Jr.)
When we are not observed we act more naturally and unconsciously.
28. In the world, I am not the only old woman who watches, I am one of the few honest people who admit it. The other people simply hire a gardener to cut their grass so they can sit by the window and drool. (Abbi Glines)
The gift of sight can bring us a great number of personal pleasures throughout our lives.
29. You may be able to save hundreds of words, with just one look! (Mehmet Murat ildan)
With our eyes we can convey many feelings that we would not be able to express verbally.
30. Wherever I am, I always find myself glancing out the window, wishing I was somewhere else. (Angelina Jolie)
With our eyes we can evade for a few seconds from the place where we are and we do not really want to be.
31. Efficiency means doing great even when no one is watching. (Henry Ford)
Even if no one watches us, we must be our best version in order to achieve our goals.
32. I would love for people to see what's inside my head instead of just looking at me. (FKA branches)
Being able to see what others think would undoubtedly be something unique and at the same time disconcerting.
33. When God looks out of his window, he sees beauty, love, rainbows, giggles, and happiness everywhere. When I look outside, I would like to be away from the gods. (Anthony T. Hincks)
What we see reflected in society many times are our own thoughts and illusions.
34. I'm just watching how to get through the day (Peter Falk)
Simply looking at everything around us can make us spend long periods of time.
35. The world is infinitely impressive for those who take the time to look. (Marty Rubin)
Knowing how to find the valuable things in the world around us is something that takes a lot of time and a lot of our attention.
36. Looking from afar, from the present to the past, from the exile to the land in which you were born, there is never dispersion in memory, but in its fullness. (Robert Macfarlane)
How we see our life is something that depends on our own perspective.
37. I looked at her, very tired in the hospital bed and she looked at me with eyes that had never known anything else and, wait, I swear we saw each other so clearly that neither time, nor heartbreak, nor even death can delete. (Garth Risk Hallberg)
An exchange of glances can connect us with someone eternally.
38. I am not the work of art but I am the artist. I do not wish to fall into the trap of seeing myself from outside. I don't really care how I look, or what I look like, I only care how I look at the world. (Abby Geni)
Our way of looking at and perceiving the world is very personal, it helps us gain our own perspective.
39. I spend a lot of time wandering the countryside just looking at people, seeing how everything fits together. (John Sandford)
How we see people will give us a personal idea about them and what they represent in society.
40. Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide the passage of time and just not looking like you're a mess. (Jeanne Moreau)
When we get a very broad perspective on life, superfluous things are no longer important to us.
41. One of the most painful performances in life is suddenly discovering that you possessed all the time and that you were busy looking elsewhere. (Domingo Adelaja)
Not looking where we should be is a problem that many of us suffer from on a regular basis.
42. Once when I was riding my bike with my helmet on, two girls were able to recognize me just by looking into my eyes. (Vijay Sethupathi)
The look is something unique in us that makes us easily recognizable.
43. If we find ourselves losing life, it is possibly because we wait for it to be revealed or present to us instead of realizing that life is revealed and we look at it when we seek it. (Craig D. Lounsbrough)
We must know how to focus to really look where we want to be.
44. One of the things I like about looking at old photos, especially when I was young, is meeting old friends that I haven't seen in a long time. For me, doing this is remembering who I was. (Lea Thompson)
With a glance at old photographs we can transport ourselves in time and space.
45. If you are observing anything from a point, from an angle, you can never reach the wisdom, because wisdom is seeing all things from all points and from all angles possible. (Mehmet Murat ildan)
Achieving wisdom means knowing how to approach each issue from the right point of view.
46. It amazes me to look at myself in the mirror and feel good about what I see. (Heather Morris)
How we see ourselves says a lot about our personality.
47. I never looked directly at the sun. Instead, he constantly looked at the sunflowers. (Vera Nazarian)
Knowing how to look is a gift that very few know how to use, photographers for example must be very skilled with it.
48. A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room in search of a black cat that is not there. On the other hand, a theologian is the man who finds it. (H.L. Mencken)
Our personal point of view leads us to find or not what we were looking for.
49. There is nothing else like looking, if you strongly want to find something. (J.R.R. Tolkien)
Observation is the best method to find lost knowledge.
50. When you have eyes, you don't need to say almost anything at all. (Tarjei Vesaas)
With a glance we can get to communicate very explicitly.
51. I knew that I had been looking for him in every street, corner and among so many crowds. (Hanya Yanagihara)
Being able to search for what we want would be impossible without the wonderful gift that sight is for everyone.
52. It is unfortunate to know that I have finished. But looking back, I have to admit that I still have very good memories. (Bonnie Blair)
We can always take a look back to see the times that have passed.
53. You have risen from my gaze like a beautiful dream, and I have searched in vain for you through the meadow and the stream. (George Linley)
A very poetic phrase from George Linley, the famous 19th century English writer and composer.
54. When the limits of the things we have set ourselves are reached, or even before we reach them, we can look into infinity. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
Looking can be something very metaphorical that we do not have to do explicitly with our eyes.
55. She never responded, she couldn't. All she could do was look, catching up with him with his gaze. (Kelly Creagh)
Looking for the gaze of our loved one is something that many of us do unconsciously.
56. Love begins with a look, continues with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
When two glances meet, they can be the prelude to a much more passionate relationship.
57. It was a look that was held in the comfort of familiarity. (Gina Marinello-Sweene)
When we know a person a lot, we can tell him many things just with our eyes.
58. There is always shame in creating an object under the public eye. (Rachel tusk)
When we feel observed we can be much more prone to making mistakes.
59. She looked at him and smiled seductively. There were no more words that were necessary. (Jason Medina)
A look and a smile can be our best letter of introduction.
60. Philosophy is written in this great book, the universe, which is continually open to our gaze. (Galileo Galilei)
The observation of the universe is something that always amazed Galileo Galilei (considered by many the father of modern astronomy)
61. And then there was the way he cast his gaze, with a chilling coldness that could cause a fire. (Sreesha Divakaran)
The gaze of certain people can carry a great power of conviction.
62. Everyone who has accomplished great things has had a great goal, they have set their sights on a goal that was high, one that sometimes seemed impossible. (Litany Swett Marden)
This quote refers to the approach we show in the struggle to achieve our goals, often represented with the use of our gaze (looking towards our goals).
63. Those who fight monsters must see to it that in the process they do not become one. If you look long enough into an abyss, the abyss will look into you. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
We must look back at the problems that we encounter in life and thus begin to combat them.
64. I love sitting on top of the mountain and looking at it. I don't think about anything other than the people I care about and the view. (Julian Lennon)
The views from a hidden place can convey great peace and spiritual serenity.
65. The glow of your gaze is the only sweater I need. (Sanober Khan)
Our gaze may be the most beautiful jewel we ever possess.
66. Looking in the mirror at the face that freezes with its double gaze reveals a punishing secret. (Diane Ackerman)
An accusing look can plunge us into a very high state of unease.
67. Are we human because we look at the stars or do we look at the stars because we are human? (Neil Gaiman)
This quote, which seems like a redundancy, explains very well that everything depends from the point of view from where we approach a problem.
68. It looks back with gratitude to the brilliant teachers and with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. (Carl Jung)
Our memories will always transport us to times that are past and that with just a glance at them we can return to them in an instant.
69. The look of an innocent child is the sweetest in the world.
The look of a child is always the bearer of a pure innocence that we all lose over the years.
70. There is no need for weapons, physical violence, or material limitations. Just one look is enough. (Michel Foucault)
The force of a glance can be enough to stop almost any conflict.
71. The gaze is possibly the most amazing human courtship technique: the language of the eyes. (Helen Fisher)
Non-verbal language can be very well represented with the use of our gaze, because with it we can give a lot of information to our interlocutor.
72. A look back is worth more than a look forward. (Archimedes)
In this quote, Archimedes tells us that we must remember where we came from and the mistakes that we have been able to make in order not to make them again.
73. To see clearly, just change the direction of your gaze. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Where we look in our life can make a clear difference in our personal future.
74. We can have all the means of communication in the world, but nothing, absolutely nothing replaces the look of the human being. (Paulo Coelho)
Paulo Coelho knows perfectly the power of a look and what we are capable of doing with it.
75. 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 hands with you. (Walter Serner)
Using our gaze intelligently can give us a very powerful emotional force towards others, non-verbal language is something that many of us use without being fully aware.
76. Many times a word, a look, a gesture is enough to fill the heart of the one we love. (Teresa of Calcutta)
A loving look can calm our being and make us forget our problems for a second.
77. Nobody can lie, nobody can hide anything when they look straight in the eye (Paulo Coelho)
When we lie, our gaze tends to disperse, since lying to someone by staring into their eyes is something very difficult to do.
78. There is a path between the eyes and the heart that does not pass through the intellect. (G.K. Chesterton)
When we see something that we find captivating, we immediately fall in love with it uncontrollably.
79. You and I don't see things as they are. We see things as we are. (Henry Ward Beecher)
How we see things is something we all do from our particular point of view.
80. And so many distracted butterflies have died in your gaze that the stars no longer illuminate anything.
When we see something very beautiful we can stare for a long time, this phenomenon is known as being dazzled.
81. Two people who look into each other's eyes do not see their eyes but their gazes (Robert Bresson)
The look of our partner will always be the most beautiful for us.
82. He who is loyal raises his gaze with humility, and he who is disloyal, with pride (Ramon Llull)
A haughty look is usually a sign of great personal egocentricity and possibly excessive ambition.
83. 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. This is the reason why the gaze, which constitutes the essence of life, is, in the first instance, a rejection. (Amélie Nothomb)
When we look at someone or something, we choose to look at that in particular, rejecting what surrounds them.
84. Perhaps there is no greater intimacy than that of two gazes that meet firmly and determinedly, and simply refuse to part. (Jostein Gaarder)
Although hundreds of people surround us, an exchange of glances can give us a certain intimacy between the two people who look at each other.
85. I don't know your name, I only know the look with which you say it to me. (Mario Benedetti)
The poet Mario Benedetti spoke in his works about the power that looks have over us.
86. The important thing is in the look, not in the thing looked. (André Gide)
Beauty is not in the object observed, it is in the observer's gaze, because beauty is a personal point of view.
87. The face is the mirror of the soul, and the eyes silently confess the secrets of the heart. (St Geronimo)
With our eyes we can say everything that we cannot with words.
88. A look, a sigh, the silence are enough to explain love. (Voltaire)
This quote from Voltaire speaks very well of how a gesture is enough to convey many things to another person.
89. There are two looks: the look of the body can sometimes forget, but that of the soul always remembers. (Alexander Dumas)
What we observe with full consciousness will always remain intact in our memories.
90. I like people who see life with different eyes from others, who consider things differently than most. (Carmen Laforet)
A great quote that encourages us to observe not simply to look, we must find our particular approach to life.