40 Quotes About Eye-contact

Some people are so self-conscious that they are unable to make eye contact for longer than a second, even when they are wearing dark sunglasses.

Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye contact and without condition. This is not the opportunistic sizing-up of sexual cruising; instead, it’s the felt recognition of the divinity and humanity in another individual.

We look at each other with shy relief. It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

We are often, if not usually, greeted mainly, or even merely, as an attempt to stop us from looking at the person greeting us, at least for a bit.

He had a strange way of talking, his head tucked into his neck and his eyes fixed in the empty space beyond, as if something were suspended there, ripe fruit or a glimmer of light, as if he were not quite brave enough, or perhaps too polite, to look a person in the eye.

I look back up at him, and he’s doing that unfathomable staring thing again. With eyes like his, that should be illegal.

The languishing eye Puts in connection soul with soul.

I break eye contact, then realize you must never break eye contact with the school counselor, or she’ll find something deeply psychological in your downward glance. I force eye contact again.

You can always feel the cool whisper of surveillance when the film hits your flesh, the eye of the camera or simply the camera eye . . . faces of passersby, clientele, unpaid extras change completely as soon as they’re no longer observed.