PHRASES ON THE EYES: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL QUOTES ON THE POWER OF THE GAZE

The importance of the eyes goes far beyond their function as an organ of sight. In fact, over the centuries, the eyes have become famous for being a kind of window on the soul of each individual: what we tend to be silent and not express through words, we externalize it with our eyes. This ability has made the eyes one of the most fascinating parts of our body, so much so that many believe they look at them first when they meet a person for the first time and various authors of the past have written famous phrases about them.

Also, did you know that based on the color and shades of the eyes it is possible to capture part of the personality of those in front of us?

Given the fascination of this topic, we have collected the most beautiful phrases about the eyes of all time, from those that show their connection with love to aphorisms that make them the go-between par excellence between our soul and the outside world.

Aphorisms about the eyes as a mirror of the soul

We have heard the phrase so many times "the eyes are the mirror of the soul"which, perhaps, seems banal to us by now. However, the gaze is truly capable of revealing something very profound about our person, capable of exposing us with a single blink of an eye.

I have spent my life looking into people's eyes, it is the only place in the body where perhaps a soul still exists.
José Saramago

The eye is the point where soul and body mix.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Fortunately, the soul has an interpreter - often unconscious, but still a faithful interpreter - the eyes.
Charlotte Brontë

I will look through the window of your eyes to see you.
Frida Kahlo

Very beautiful eyes are unbearable, you always have to look at them, you drown in them, you get lost, you don't know where you are anymore.
Elias Canetti

The eyes are very important, they are a kind of barometer. See who has a great dryness in the soul, who without a reason can slap the toe of the boot in the ribs, and who is afraid of everything and everyone.
Mikhail Bulgakov

A person's soul is hidden in his gaze, which is why we are afraid of being looked into the eye.
Jim Morrison

When I know your soul, I'll paint your eyes.
Amedeo Modigliani

From the eyes of women I derive my doctrine: they still shine with the true fire of Prometheus, they are the books, the arts, the academies, which show, contain and nourish the world.
William Shakespeare

The eyes are the mirror of the soul ... hide yours if you don't want me to discover their secrets.
Luigi Pirandello

The eyes of the arrogant. Eyes of those who want something from life, and want it immediately. They are eyes that are eager to have, eyes that are urgent and greedy. And then there are the eyes of the sensitive. They are different, not only in the amount of light that is inside. In those eyes there is respect, kindness, fear and enchantment and no matter how much one tries to get to the bottom, that depth never ends.
Fabrizio Caramagna

The soul is our home; our eyes are his windows, and our words his messengers.
Khalil Gibran

The eyes are the mirror of the soul.
Italian proverb

Observe the eyes of a child, their freshness, their radiant vitality, their liveliness. They resemble a mirror, silent but penetrating: only such eyes can reach the depths of the inner world.
Osho

There are eyes that have no end, you only get lost in looking at them.
Anonymous

As the face is the image of the soul, the eyes are its interpreters.
Marco Tullio Cicerone

The best quotes about eyes and love

Many romantic phrases have been written about eyes and love. The glances between lovers have always been one of the most appreciated sentimental images, capable of making us dream. Here are the most famous aphorisms on this subject.

The first kiss is not given with the mouth but with the eyes.
Tristan Bernard

An American can talk about love with his lips; an Italian with eyes.
Rudolph Valentino

The face is the mirror of the mind, and the eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
Sofronio Eusebio Girolamo

In love, the eyes guide us.
Sesto Properzio

He has the merciless eyes of one who feels loved above all else.
Elias Canetti

But lovers, true lovers, invent their truth with their eyes.
Molière

You recognize love in a precise way: you have those eyes there only for those eyes there.
Anonymous

Love, like a tear, comes from the eyes and falls on the heart.
Publilius Syrus

Phrases about looks that say more than words

Communication is not just verbal. In addition to words and gestures, the eyes can say a lot about us, revealing thoughts, emotions and moods that we may try to hide in our interiority. The power of the gaze also lies in this.

There are two ways to look at a person's face. One is looking at the eyes as part of the face, the other is just looking at the eyes ... as if they were the face.
Alessandro D'Avenia

The tongue can hide the truth, but the eyes - never!
Mikhail Bulgakov

The eyes tell you what one is; the mouth what it has become.
John Galsworthy

All the power in the world is contained in the eyes.
Michael Wincott

There is a path that goes from the eyes to the heart without passing through the intellect.
GK Chesterton

One eye can threaten like a loaded gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking in his altered mood, being a bundle of kindness. It can make the heart dance with joy ... One of the most beautiful things in nature is the gaze of the eye; transcends words; it is the body symbol of identity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I understand your eyes, I hear your true voice.
Alejandro Lanús

In some eyes you breathe the most beautiful stories, travels and songs.
Fabrizio Caramagna

The eyes are bold as lions, - they wander, run, jump here and there, near and far, and speak all languages.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the eyes never use punctuation. Because the looks say all in one breath.
Anonymous

His eyes were of different colors, the left brown like autumn, the right gray like the Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that could not be expressed, as if the words with which to frame them did not yet exist ...
Tim Willocks

Almost nothing needs to be said when you know how to use your eyes.
Tarjei Vesaas

Aphorisms about the beauty of the eyes

Beyond the shape or color, the beauty of the eyes lies in their expressiveness and here are the images with which poets, writers and celebrities of the present and the past have told it.

The world is full of beautiful eyes but there are few eyes that look at you with sincerity and love.
Bob Marley

The beauty of a woman does not depend on the clothes she wears or the appearance she possesses or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be perceived from her eyes, because that is the door to her heart, the place where love resides.
Audrey Hepburn

The most beautiful eyes, for me, are eyes full of tears.
Edmond Rostand

The eyes of beauty: eyes that do nothing but be seen.
Fabrizio Caramagna

The only beautiful eyes are those that look at you with tenderness.
Coco Chanel

The most beautiful phrases on the eyes to dedicate to your partner

Finally, we conclude with a series of quotes and aphorisms that have the gaze as their theme and that are perfect to dedicate to your loved one.

Every time you look at me I'm born in your eyes.
George Riechmann

A glance from you, a single word from you, tells me more than all the wisdom of this world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The world is full of beautiful eyes, mine is full of your eyes.
Anonymous

I would like to see from your eyes, hear from your ears, hear with your skin, kiss with your mouth.
Frida Kahlo

I just need to see his black eyes to feel good.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Get rid of everything but my eyes off.
Anonymous

Your eyes, big, dark and beautiful, for a moment clung to mine and together we straightened and stood up, thanks almost to the strength of the gaze alone.
David Grossman

Your eyes are cisterns that quench my torments.
Charles Baudelaire

The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.
E. E. Cummings

And on the shades of your eyes I could write a book.
Anonymous

You don't know it but there is someone who as soon as he opens his eyes in the morning already has you in his thoughts, and you stay there until the evening until his eyes close.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your eye promises love, your heart gives heaven.
Victor Hugo

The most beautiful love story is only possible in the serene and disturbing handwriting of your eyes.
Luis Sepùlveda

Your eyes are ceilings for my looks. It all stops there.
Anonymous

Your eyes are springs, in whose silent serene waters the sky is reflected.
William Shakespeare

In the end, you were destined in my eyes.
Pablo Neruda