The rarer sene, the lesse in mynde, The lesse in mynde, the lesser payne.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who backwards looks.)

A monster frightful, formless, immense, with sight removed. [Lat., Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum.]

He that had neither beene kithe nor kin, Might have seene a full fayre sight. - Thomas Percy,

We see things not as they are but as we are.

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