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In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

— Henry Grunwald

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

— Thomas Merton

The universal practice of closing the eyes of the dead may be thought to have originated in the desire that he might be prevented from seeing his way.

— Sabine Baring-Gould

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

— Maya Lin

Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

— Caitlin Doughty

To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

— Edvard Munch

When the heart is full, the eyes overflow.

— Sholom Aleichem

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

— George Sand

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

— Marcus Aurelius

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

✗Opposing Perspectives

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

— Wallace Stevens