Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

These eyes are a mysterious torch that illuminates the outside only. I always live in darkness, but my darkness is full of stars. -Red White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

The whistling dawn, the sussurration of the leaves, a honking goose, and then a sentimental confab at the Solid Rock Gospel Church with a wounded soul who poured his heart out to Press precisely because he was blind and therefore harmless. Since these individuals had no money, he couldn't give them financial advice, just wholehearted sympathy. As at the commune, a toddler might scramble into his lap, and while he petted the child its mother held a cookie to its mouth and another one to his to bite and chew. A world worth living in and for.

The world has been blind in the presence of artificial lights.They blame on the darkness in broad daylight.

Until you see beauty everywhere, in every face, until then, you are blind.

Too much reason limits man to the physical world and blinds his imagination to the greater things that may be. But too much faith blinds him from curing the human suffering in this world. Men with too much faith accept suffering; they expect it and even seek it out.

Was I wilfully blind when I married Michael? Of course I was. I knew about his heart condition - everyone did. But I fell in love with him and decided it didn't matter. We were going to live for ever, somehow. Now I know that the fact that we had the same initials, were both expatriates, had gone to the same university, and were of medium build made the relationship highly determined. But I might have done the research and discovered his short life expectancy or talked to psychologists about the pain of grieving or read books about the sadness of widowhood. But I didn't do any of those things. I looked away from those sad certainties and pretended that they weren't there. Love is blind, not, as in mythology, because Cupid's arrows are random but because, once struck by them, we are left blind. When we love someone, we see them as smarter, wittier, prettier, stronger than anyone else sees them.

We’d all lost ourselves and found something far more significant together. We reached with gaping wounds for a healing we desired so badly, like a blind man picturing the world around him—the lively children skipping rope, green grass, blue sky. It’s like that man standing in his vision, rising from the park bench, arms outstretched, taking the first steps into a world he only hopes exists.

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.

Whenever God allows a mass blindness to cover his church, it is not out of stupidity, it is out of divine providence

When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway

When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.

When you are the problem, it's hard to see it.

You really don't have to subscribe to the life that had been written for you.

You see,” he said turning to Mr Norton, “he has eyes and ears and a good distended African nose, but he fails to understand the simple facts of life. Understand. Understand? It’s worse than that. He registers with his senses but short-circuits his brain. Nothing has meaning. He takes it in but he doesn’t digest it. Already he is—well, bless my soul! Behold! a walking zombie! Already he’s learned to repress not only his emotions but his humanity. He’s invisible, a walking personification of the Negative, the most perfect achievement of your dreams, sir! The mechanical man!

A clamor for 'family values' requires deliberate blindness to the abuses that occur within families.

Use your dick, don’t be one.

We have flattered ourselves by inventing proverbs of comparison in matter of blindness,--"blind as a bat," for instance. It would be safe to say that there cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. Tempers strain and recover, hearts break and heal, strength falters, fails, and comes near to giving way altogether, every day, without being noted by the closest lookers-on.

We ought to be thankful not for our eyes but for our ability to see.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

When you see the things every time, and even you do not understand; it is the blindness of your vision.

WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center is never clear. I’m an inventor and pioneer. A mentor to my peers. But I'm not as sound as my shell reveals, Because I’m tormented by my fears - That may appear to be grounded But my insides are filled with tears. And the sadness is well-founded, From years and years Of traumatic experiences Compounded In the most demented Atmospheres. I talk but feel like nobody hears. Has reason disappeared? And, God, are you near? This is Giza’s 7th light force And I'm asking you to interfere. I can no longer walk amongst the blind and dead With open eyes and ears. I’m trying to maintain my sanity And to straighten up my veneer As I roll amongst the growing calamities Flowing on Earth’s severely trashed Frontier. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)

With Hank at her side, she would never really be blind again. His eyes were hers, just as he’d vowed. When they grew old, they would take walks at sunset, and she’d be able to see everything. His gift to her—pictures painted with words. Love wasn’t about easy, according to Hank. It was about sticking through thick and thin. He would always be with her, unless death took him first, and even then, Carly knew she’d never be left in complete darkness again. She would have the love of this man to light her way.

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness

Envy-Thy art blindness

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

God, have mercy on me in the blindness in which I hope I am seeking You!

Haste is blind and improvident.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Because history is only an aggregate of personal hostilities, personal prejudices, personal blindness and irrationality, there are times when we have to live against it.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

I had thought, in my blindness, that the great things were the easiest to do, but now I see that drudgery is an inseparable part of everything worth while, and the more worth while it is, the more drudgery is involved.

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

I'm 52 years old and blindness has been the single hardest thing I deal with every minute of every day.

Institutional blindness is a major threat to the future of all corporations.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

Invention is almost the only literary labour which blindness cannot obstruct.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.