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You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead. — Mahatma Gandhi

The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way. — Sabine Baring-Gould

He vaguely desired to walk around and around the body and stare; the impulse of the living to try to read in dead eyes the answer to the Question. — Stephen Crane

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein

Baby, open your eyes and look around. We're all damned in one way or another. But damned is a far cry from dead. And you live like you are dead. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

If you've bullshitted me, angel, I'm going to kill you."
The other male rolled his eyes. "I'm already dead, idiot. — J.R. Ward

I don't like your eyes. They belong on a dead fish. — Robert Ludlum

It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes. — Guillaume Apollinaire

Anubis frowned. He locked his very nice eyes with mine.
"You're not dead."
"No," I said. "Though we're trying awfully hard. — Rick Riordan

The trees seemed to have eyes that were watching us and reaching out for me. They began to take on the shape of the dead. — Amber Newberry

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism. — Matthew Yglesias

He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming. — George R R Martin

My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes. — Soyen Shaku

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead. — Kirstie Alley

The black insect-dead eyes in her suety, pockmarked face gaze at him — Irvine Welsh

But something. Something has died. Isn't there now. I can't paint.' There are tears in her voice but none in her eyes. 'I am dead inside'. — Keri Hulme

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to
me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! — V.C. Andrews

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living. — Jean Cocteau

Blank eyes. Empty eyes. A doll's eyes. Eyes more dead than death. — Robert Jordan

When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now. — Dan Pearce

Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009) — Francisco De Quevedo

Achilles' eyes lift. They are bloodshot and dead. I wish he had let you all die. — Madeline Miller

I smoothed a bloodied lock of hair from her eyes and felt very tired as I said, The only people who never hurt are dead. — Jim Butcher

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead. — Carrie Fisher

Once you open your eyes in the water, you become a flying creature ... How unlike a dead fish a live fish is. — Maxine Hong Kingston

Crows will fight over a dead man's flesh and kill each other for his eyes. — George R R Martin

Saige, Mother is ... " I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. "Mother is dead. — Jada Berglund

The dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors ... — Rachel Vincent

I have eyes like those of a dead pig. — Marlon Brando

It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his. — James Branch Cabell

As my hand found his, bitter salt tears spilled from my eyes, in sorrow and pain and regret that I had so utterly failed him. — Kim Harrison

Guard your throats and hide your eyes. He's not dead, you fools. Legends never die. — A.G. Howard

Love laid his sleepless head
On a thorny rose bed:
And his eyes with tears were red,
And pale his lips as the dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind. — Epictetus

You ... " The centaur's eyes flared like a cornered animal's. "You should be dead. — Rick Riordan

What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? — Euripides

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic. — George Bernard Shaw

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature. — Charles Dickens

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose, Nor spake, nor moved their eyes; It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They — Val McDermid

Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. "She is dead."
"Ding dong, the witch is dead, — Laurell K. Hamilton

I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes. — John Cassavetes

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; — John Keats

For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. — Victor Hugo

Play dead. She remained on her belly, eyes closed, breathing shallowly. Please, let him think I'm dead. — Marissa Clarke

It's why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn't have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living. — Glen Duncan

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think. — Paul W.S. Bowler

Speedy was kicked back in his favorite chair, cap pulled down over his eyes, mouth open, dead to the world. — John Grisham

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead. — John Buchan

It watched the strangers with not-eyes. A dead view of the world created by memory and lifeglow. — J. Cameron McClain

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living — Confucius

If you see one dead body, it's awful and compelling and hard to tear one's eyes away. If you see a hundred they start to mean nothing. — John Katzenbach

Long road to ruin, there in your eyes
Under the cold streetlights.
No tomorrow, no dead-ends in sight! — Foo Fighters

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again. — Sylvia Plath

If carrots are good for my eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway? — Richard Jeni

So i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while. — Taylor Swift

Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
Locked in endless dreams,
The extremes of all extremes,
Ope no more, for now Love dies. — John Ford

Dead man, dead man
When will you arise?
Cobwebs in your mind
Dust upon your eyes — Bob Dylan

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead. — Austin O'Malley

Her eyes were tired, but we're seniors. All seniors have dead eyes. — Laurie Halse Anderson