A Quote by W. H. Auden
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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At first Eric stares at Four in silence. Four stares back.
The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
In my job, I am portrayed as a misfit, a grandiose high fashion lady or an unearthly creature. At home, it's important I can look in the mirror, strip away the disguise and be comfortable with who stares back.
Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.
He stares at me, and then leans back in his chair. "He's ill, Jacob." I say nothing. "He's a paragon schnitzophonic." "He's what?!" "Paragon schnitzophonic," repeats Uncle Al. "You mean paranoid schizophrenic?" "Sure. Whatever. But the bottom line is he's mad as a hatter.
When someone hears that I've written a book about 1897, I'm usually met with blank stares. And the first thing they say is, 'Was there even an L.A. back then?' A lot of people don't even think there was a city before the movies appeared. That concept of Los Angeles is so strong in the popular imagination that celebrity overrides everything.
I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.
Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.
And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while
... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
You have to be mentally strong to withstand the ridicule of other children and the stares of adults.
It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.
The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
On screen, everyone stares at your face, but on stage, you can basically play anybody.
Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.
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