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Eyelids Quotes

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids

Aesop Rock
Irises, Sunny Day, Eyelids
Song: Battery, Album: Labor Days, 2001

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

Mary Boykin Chesnut
Weight, Eyelids

I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

Eduardo Galeano
Sleep, Eyelids, Stuck

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now.

Og Mandino
Inspirational, Eyelids
"The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 16: "The Scroll Marked IX," p. 95, 1968.

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

Terence McKenna
Trying, Eyelids, Behinds

The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.

Eiji Yoshikawa
Life And Death, Lines, Eyelids
Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry (1989). “Way of Life and Death”, Pocket

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Jodi Picoult
Memories, Eyelids, Perfume
Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death.

Homer
Sweet, Sleep, Eyelids
Homer, Theodore Alois William BUCKLEY (1851). “The Odyssey of Homer, with the Hymns, Epigrams, and Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Literally Translated with Explanatory Notes, by T. A. Buckley”, p.177

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

Catherynne M. Valente
Skirts, Eyelids, Leningrad
"Deathless". Book by Catherynne M. Valente, March 29, 2011.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

Aimee Bender
Caves, Want, Eyelids

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