Being Watched Quotes

“It feels good pulling on these muscles, it feels better than worrying about who is watching.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“He was watching her and she knew it. She couldn't see him, she couldn't hear him, but he was there. She could feel him.”
― Arti Manani, The Colours of Denial

“He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“I couldn't erase the creeping feeling that someone still watched me, curious and wanting to play.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I became convinced that I was being watched.

Because self was still leaking everywhere, a part of me began to think it was Mizuko rather than a stranger. I hoped that there might still be a reunion. I hoped it in the shy, sly way hope comes out of the jar, the mistranslated box, last—after everything and everyone else has escaped.”
― Olivia Sudjic, Sympathy

“The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth. In 1610, Galileo observed sunspots on its surface, proving that the Sun was rotating and at different speeds. It also proved that you never know who's watching you.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The reason I do not wear a watch is because I am always on a watch. I just need to ask the person how long they have been watching me.
- the irony of paranoia”
― Reshma Valliappan

“Even though no threat had revealed itself, it seemed important to eliminate any possible moment of silence. As if somehow the blankness of the walls fed off of silence, and that something might appear in the spaces between our words if we were not careful. Had I expressed this anxiety to the psychologist, she would have been worried, I know. But I was more attuned to solitude than any of us, and I would have characterized that place in that moment of our exploration as watchful.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“Strange feeling that someone is looking at me. I am clear, then dim, then gone, then dim again, then clear again, and so on, back and forth, in and out of someone's eye.”
― Samuel Beckett, Happy Days