#gaze

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#always #backwards #been #comics #difficult

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. ↗

— James Nathan Miller

#character #gaze #his #managed #mastery

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#back #battles #better #does #gaze

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#back #gaze #into #long #will

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#bitter #bitter truth #chose #covered #eyes

And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#also #gaze #gazes #into #long

The only real evidence that any critic may bring before his gaze is the finished poem. ↗

— Allen Tate

#before #bring #critic #evidence #finished

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#face #gaze #look #mirror #pins

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#male-gaze #science-fiction #women #science

It was as if something snapped in two deep inside me. My parents-- the people I’d loved the most in the world, the ones I’d always told all my secrets to, the ones I’d wanted to hide with far away from the rest of the world. They had lied, and I couldn’t imagine why. It couldn’t possibly matter why. ↗

— Claudia Gray

#parents #stargazer #imagination