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The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. -- Tracy Chevalier
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids. -- John Milton
I just have a dream mountain under the eyelids, this is my breath, my life. -- Wojciech Kurtyka
When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids. -- Jodi Picoult
We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws. -- Marcus Aurelius
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. -- Thomas Hood
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even. -- Bar Refaeli
Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.... -- William Butler Yeats
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. -- Paul Valery
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
People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. -- David Petraeus
Too often we take notes on writing, we think about writing but never do it. I want you to walk into the heart of the storm, written words dripping off hair, eyelids, hanging from hands. -- Natalie Goldberg
The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids. -- Mansur Al-Hallaj
I'm really into a blush on the eyelid and on the high of the cheek. The singer of 'Cocteau Twins' used to do that - really pink eyelids. It added a little romance to the hard kind of street-edge clothes. -- Chloe Sevigny
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. -- Og Mandino
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. -- Baz Luhrmann
Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind. -- David Zindell
The truth is dark under your eyelids. -- Charles Simic
This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter -- Tom Robbins
Sweet sleep fell upon his eyelids, unwakeful, most pleasant, the nearest like death. -- Homer
There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars. -- Lucy Christopher
Throw a pair of Band-Aids over your eyelids, and open your eyes to your wounds. -- Jarod Kintz
I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids. -- Jonathan Raban
There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids -- Aesop Rock
My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want. -- Aimee Bender
I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. -- Janet Fitch
The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids. -- Yukio Mishima
I fell headfirst into a sinkhole of pretty things, and the world inside your eyelids is just as big as the one outside. -- Brenna Yovanoff
Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed. -- Roger Williams
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
I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Eleanor," Daniel said. "Miss Fitt! Wake up!"I fluttered my eyelids open. "I'm not a misfit anymore," I rasped. "I thought I told you that. -- Susan Dennard
The right people came along with the right tools (eyelids), and it was goodnight, war. Peace felt like such a dream, probably because it was. -- Jarod Kintz
Onscreen, Foaly rubbed his eyelids with his index fingers. "Yeah, yeah. Here we go. Captain Short goes rogue once more. Hands up who's surprised. Anyone? -- Eoin Colfer
And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid. -- Conor Oberst
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach; may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance. Don't leave me for a second, my dearest. -- Pablo Neruda
I sometimes close my eyes during a show because I have drawn a picture of an audience enjoying the show more on the back of my eyelids. -- Mitch Hedberg
The taste of chalk. The sun lays its copper thumbs on my eyelids. The radio plays the monologue of a dog. What is the formula for tomorrow? -- Warren Heiti
After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues? -- Jodi Picoult
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? -- William Shakespeare
I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that's beckoning to you. -- Rachel Klein
We could easily have evolved eyelids thick enough to keep out the light, but we still need to see the shadows fall across them. We're not yet safe. -- Don Paterson
I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose. -- J. G. Holland
I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness. -- Pablo Neruda
To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes. -- Shay Mitchell
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is. -- Leigh Hunt
[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anÃ¦sthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being. -- William Ernest Henley
I met a man with no forehead and receding eyebrows. He had ketchup crusted on his eyelids. I can't remember what we talked about, I just remember him smelling like chicken feed. -- Jarod Kintz
Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there. -- Elizabeth Goudge
I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and wanted to know all my secrets," I say in my best seductive voice. -- Suzanne Collins
Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young. -- Iris Apfel
I breathe slowly and deeply. I make my eyes still under eyelids, I make my mind still, and soon, Sleep, seeing a perfect reproduction of himself, comes to be united with his facsimile. -- Audrey Niffenegger
Makeup is such a weird concept. I'll wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. 'Gee, I really don't look so good. Maybe if my eyelids were blue, I'd be more attractive. -- Cathy Ladman

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