Blindness Quotes
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"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true."
"Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it."
"And you're blind?"Uh-huh,"Iggy said, trying to sound bored.Were you born that way?"No."How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened."
"She looked, but she couldn’t see. She was wearing an emotional blindfold, and though she heard me say I love you, she just didn’t listen."
"When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"
"blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born."
"Nothing is easier than self-deceit.For what every man wishes,that he also believes to be true."
"If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it."
"And you're blind?"Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored.Were you born that way?"No."How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened."
"To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face"
"You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you."
"No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness."
"Old age doth in sharp pains abound;We are belabored by the gout,Our blindness is a dark profound,Our deafness each one laughs about.Then reason's light with falling rayDoth but a trembling flicker cast.Honor to age, ye children pay!Alas! my fifty years are past!"
"I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?"
"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."
"When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway"
"How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision."
"It takes a lot of confidence, and self-love and self-worth to realize that you are capable. And that you have every right to leave your lane, and to do things in the same way that other people do."
"You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you."
"Love isn’t blind. Maybe we are all born blind and love finally gives us sight."
"The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck."
"What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?"
"To even begin to embrace the magnitude of God’s vision, we must first embrace our vision as being nothing more than vision by definition."
"She stood, a little unsteadily, true, but on her own two feet. “It’s not my blindness that cripples me, it’s everyone else deciding I can’t live because of my blindness. If I stumble, if I run into things and fall and hurt myself it’s because I can and I’m free to do so, Maximus. Because without that freedom I’m just a dull, chained thing and I won’t be that woman anymore. I simply won’t, Maximus."
"Sunglasses are more useful to a blind man than freedom of speech is to a man who does not think for himself."
"Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads."
"You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out with needles. Too much beauty, yes, but also too much seeing. They were tired of seeing. The dark was safe and warm and comfortable. Blindness was a gift. I still have seeing to do."
"Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind."
"Art can blow us out of our pigeon hole. In deafness it may shout or scream, in blindness it may arrest our attention, in numbness it may shake up our mind. If we don’t sense anything at all and take everything for granted, art can kick us in the ass, give a conscience and make us aware. ("When is Art?")"
"Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness."
"I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost."
"Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn’t make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly."
"I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other."
"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God."
"If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves."
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1
"The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger."
"The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame on the darkness in broad daylight."
"[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same."
"People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life."
"They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened yet are constantly pushing themselves into my head."
"I want you to trust me," Gabe whispered against her lips.Lauren closed her eyes and fought the urge to kiss him. "I still don't."Gabe laughed. "Yeah, you do. You might not want to, but you do."
"... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ..."
"I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could I be making here a true orgy of what's behind thought?"
"If I were a flower,humming bird would be my favourite beeAnd If I were blind,the light of darkness I'd love to see"
"Never was a blind person blinded by the light that overwhelms his skin but blinded by the darkness within"
"After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively."
"A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see"
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
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