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These Eyes Tell A Tale That Words Simply Can’t

By Alap Naik Desai
Published on: 10:10 PST, Aug 1, 2014

The eyes are said to be the gateway to the soul. They often reveal much more about the person than words ever could. A glance, a stare, or a penetrative look are enough to fill the heart with joy, raise suspicion, or fill the mind with self-doubt. The eyes can act as narrators of the stories or ordeals that the person has gone or is going through. Here are some of the photos of such people whose eyes tell a tale that words simply can’t.

The Eyes of Utter Desperation:

A group of homeless men wait to receive free food being distributed outside a mosque in New Delhi, India.

Image Credit | Purna

The Eyes of Skeptical Curiosity:

A group of Indonesian men being taught how to use condoms for the first time.

Image Credit | Andri Tambunan

The Eyes of Resilient Courage:

Bibi Aisha, given to a Taliban fighter, escaped. She was captured by police and delivered to her in-laws, who cut off her nose and ears. She was rescued and saved by aid workers and the U.S military.

Image Credit | Jodi Bieber

The Eyes of Incredulity:

The exact moment little Harold Whittles, who was born deaf, heard for the first time with his new hearing aids.

Image Credit | Jack Bradley

The Eyes That Lost Their Innocence:

An eight-year-old son of a Syrian rebel fighter defiantly stands guard with an AK-47, calmly puffing on a cigarette.

Image Credit | Sebastiano Tomada

The Eyes That Personify Adverse Innocence:

“The Boy with the Sapphire Eyes” photographed by Vanessa Bristow

Image Credit | Vanessa Bristow

The Eyes of Profound Gratitude:

Twelve-year-old Diego Frazão Torquato plays the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape a life of poverty and violence through the power of music.

Image Credit | Kebbs

The Eyes of Blessed Relief:

Polish heart surgeon, Zbigniew Religa, looks relieved after a marathon, but successful, 23-hour heart transplant surgery.

Image Credit | Jim Stanfield via National Geographic

The Eyes That Reveal Inner Loss Of Mental Balance:

A shell shocked soldier in a trench in 1916, during the Battle of Courcelette. The cause: continuous bombardment that causes panic, inability to reason, sleep, walk, or talk.

Image Credit | Imgur

The Eyes of Deceptive Peace:

Though the helmet reads War is Hell, the soldier was with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Battalion in South Vietnam in 1965.

Image Credit | Horst Faas

The Eyes of Sheer Exhaustion:

An emotionally and physically fatigued American prisoner of war after liberated by the allies in Limburg, Germany in 1945.

Image Credit | Life Magazine via Boredpanda

The Eyes of Muted Agony:

Omayra Sanchez, a 13-year-old Colombian girl killed in the volcanic eruption in 1985, is stuck under the debris of her house.

Image Credit | Frank Fournier

The Eyes of Defiant Fatigue:

Corporal Antonio Metruccio’s after an exhaustive 72-hour-long fire-fight in Bala Murghab.

Image Credit | Mondo Panorama

These photos serve as a reminder of the fragility as well as the complexities of the world through these still slices of history.

[Cover Image Credit | Christopher Stromholm] (The girl that witnessed the nuclear blast that is Hiroshima)

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