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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut — Alexander Graham Bell

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts. — Patrick Henry

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you. — Aristophanes

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time. — Alice Sebold

The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. — William Golding

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can't shut your mind. — Terry Pratchett

Shut your eyes and see. — James Joyce

No trains. No traffic noise. At night, my mother's old bedroom was so dark I couldn't tell if I'd shut my eyes or not. — Susan Fletcher

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts ... — William Shakespeare

Just because you can't see anything , doesn't mean you should shut your eyes. — Ray Charles

Oh, dreams! In one night, lying with one's eyes shut, one may sometimes live through more than ten years of happiness. — Anton Chekhov

I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open. — Kieran Culkin

If all the seven stones were laid out before me now, I should shut my eyes and put my hands in my pockets. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I will shut down Instagram so girls can't use filters into tricking us that they are that pretty; you're eyes aren't that blue, and you don't glow. — Daniel Tosh

Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut. — Alexander William Gaskarth

When creative people do their best work, they're hardly ever in charge, they're just sort of rolling along with their eyes shut yelling wheee. — Stephen King

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open. — Alec-Tweedie

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! — Robert Browning

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. — Henry Miller

Leaned his head back onto the plush headrest of his private limousine and shut his eyes — Sarah Price

And I'm here to tell you that, as long as you keep your eyes shut, it's really not that bad. — David Sedaris

I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm. — Sylvia Plath

Sometimes she became overwhelmed with the beauty of life and then she could do nothing but shut her eyes and pretend she was already an angel — Kay Foley

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. — Gertrude Stein

i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shut — Rupi Kaur

Aleksander."
His eyes fluttered shut. "Don't let me be alone," he murmured. And then he was gone. — Leigh Bardugo

My parents also had a tough time recognizing me at first. because my eyes were black and swollen shut and I had two tubes coming out of my head. — Amy Rankin

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. — Samuel Palmer

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes. — Mark Thomas

When her eyes flared with anger, he growled, "Shut up." After a pause, during which he managed to glare tenderly at her, he continued. — Madeline Sheehan

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open. — Willa Cather

I squeeze my eyes shut and whisper in her damp hair. 'You're all I see, Sloan. Beyond the job, beyond right and wrong. You're all I see. — Colleen Hoover

Sometimes ... " He paused and squeezed his eyes shut. " Sometimes our hearts ... crack a little." -Jack — Brodi Ashton

I was told to keep my mouth shut," Manon said. Her grandmother's eyes flashed. "Unless you'd prefer I get on my knees and grovel. — Sarah J. Maas

Oh gods! My eyes!" Connor covered his face. "My innocence!"
"Shut up, Connor," I said, both relieved and disappointed by the interruption. — Andrea Cremer

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls. — J.K. Rowling

We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of fire. — Marge Piercy

I love you."
Z squeezed his eyes shut. "Don't be a tragedy, Bella. — J.R. Ward

Oohrah, kiddo," Chester said quietly. Ty smiled and squeezed his eyes shut as tears trailed down his face. "Oohrah, Gunny. — Abigail Roux

Six minutes isn't sex," I hear him
saying as my eyes crash shut. "Six
minutes is a boiled egg. — Sophie Kinsella

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered. — Elizabeth Berg

Truth is like light; you can shut your eyes to it, but it is ever before you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Spend as much time as you can with your mouth shut and your eyes and ears open. — John Jakes

He let his eyes drift shut and decided in that instant that for the rest of Emily's life, he would be her guardian angel. — Jodi Picoult

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward. — Benjamin Franklin

What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet. — Katharine Graham

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy. — Jean Anouilh

Keeping your eyes shut to envision your dreams does nothing to create the reality you're being told to build by your subconscious. — Jes Fuhrmann

Life's inevitable changes are like a compulsory roller-coaster ride. You can cower and shut your eyes tight, or you can exult in the thrills. — Roger Crawford

Shut your eyes and you can often see more; block your ears and you can often hear more, but close your mind and you may never know more. — Barry Cheskin

Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it. — Joyce Carol Oates

Hey, moose! I screamed. The Set animal locked its glowing eyes one me. Well done! Horus said. Now we'll both die with honor! Shut up, I thought. — Rick Riordan

her bedside. She shut her eyes tightly against the sight — Glynnis Campbell

When the enemy is awake and around, don't ever shut your eyes even for a single second no matter how sweet and tempting the sleep. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut. — Linda Pastan

As my eyes slide shut,I'm thinking about second chances,knowing that the one I wished for tonight is lying next to me. — Rebecca Donovan

There can only be absolute freedom or none at all. And if you can't have either, then maybe it's better to keep your eyes
shut. — Liv Olteano

Sublime Beauty
When I shut my eyes, I can move mountains.
When I open them, mountains can move me. — Beryl Dov

Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards. — Madeleine De Scudery

Jacob crammed his eyes shut, listening to that feeble breathing, half expecting every breath to be the last. Lord, did You leave me for a purpose? — Willowy Whisper

Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes. — Keariene Muizz

We keep our eyes tightly shut and complain that there are no lights. — Debasish Mridha

The dragon marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut.
"Your dragon is pleased," she said.
"Indeed, he is. — Susan Scott

Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open. — T.F. Hodge

When I shut my eyes on this world I'll finally have peace. — Kevin Walker

The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. — Bion Of Borysthenes

Too many times when I was a kid, I would put my hands together and squinch my eyes shut and I would devote fully to hoping for something — John Green

...your skin is so tight you can't shut your eyes without opening your mouth. — Charles Frederick Briggs

One idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot. — Yssubramanyam

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut. — Dr. Seuss

To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy. — Virginia Woolf

Drink up my honey eyes,
Kiss them shut every night,
And be my 'one' all my life. — Crystal Woods

Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier not to feel. — Shannon Hale

Of course I remember you." My voice is a strangled whisper. I squeeze my eyes shut. "You were the only one who ever looked at me like a human being. — Tahereh Mafi

To shut you eyes is to guess nothing of blindness. — Anthony Doerr

I move my hand lower. His eyes drift shut. Lower. He lets out a groan. And then I touch it. "Shit," he breathes. "Penis," I squeak. — Jay McLean

Shut your eyes," said Miss Tanner.
"Oh no," said Miranda, "for then I see worse things ... — Katherine Anne Porter

Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light. — N.D. Wilson

If you could hold your nose to avoid a stink, or close your eyes to cut out a sight, why not shut off your brain to avoid a thought? — Katherine Paterson

The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton. — CM Punk

If I had to shut my eyes it wouldn't have been any darker. We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe. — Ransom Riggs

If you have something hot, you keep your mouth shut, your eyes open, and your secrets buried. — Richard Castle

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears ... as easily as we open and shut our eyes. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

In another life we are happy," I murmur, squeezing my eyes shut. "In another life we grow old together. — Suzanne Young

Meoraq swung around and raked his eyes over the whole of them. "Who dares order me to silence?" "I do," said Amber. "Shut up. — R. Lee Smith

31. "Shut your eyes in order to see." ~ — Paul Gauguin

Finely dropped her head, squeezed her eyes shut and began silently to do what some might call praying, she called it begging. — Kady Cross

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut. — Gwendoline Riley

Anything's hard to find if you go around looking for it with your eyes shut. — Shelagh Delaney

For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost ... Not 'til we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. — Henry David Thoreau

If I really had powers, I could turn off pain the way I can shut my eyes. But I can't. I feel it. Skin doesn't get thicker. Instead, it remembers. — Robin Roe

Harold says one of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to Facts. It — C.S. Lewis

Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

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

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes. — Mika Waltari

Yes, I'd seen bright stars last night, but I'd shut my eyes against the glare. — Cat Porter

[W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes. — Joseph Hall

It's better to see and know you're a fool than to keep your eyes shut and keep acting like one. — Nora Roberts

Don't be afraid," I whisper to myself, my eyes squeezed shut. "You can't afford it. — Marie Lu

My eyes make pictures when they are shut. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge