Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

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

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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

An eye for an eye only leads to more 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.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

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

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

Hate and mistrust are the children of 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.

Haste is blind and improvident.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Learning slowly to not be so reactionary while inserting verbal gratitude into stressful situations is almost like being healed of mental blindness.

It is right that we should stand by and act on our principles; but not right to hold them in obstinate blindness, or retain them when proved to be erroneous.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Not the zeal alone of those who seek Him proves God, but the blindness of those who seek Him not.

My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.

There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.