Best 177 quotes in «blindness quotes» category

I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

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

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

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

There are not sacred and profane things, places, and moments. There are only sacred and desecrated things, places, and moments-and it is we alone who desecrate them by our blindness and lack of reverence. It is one sacred universe, and we are all a part of it.

The heathen in his blindness Bows down to wood and stone.

The more one is absorbed in so-called philosophy, the greater one's delusion and blindness.

There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.

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

There is no blindness more insidious, more fatal that this race for profit.

The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

We think we know what's right. With excessive pride comes blindness.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.

When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

A blind pursuit of cheap popularity has nothing to do with revolution." [Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the forty-ninth A.N.C. National Conference, Bloemfontein, South Africa, 17 December 1994]

A blind man’s thoughts almost never have anything to do with the things he is facing.

A blind man will suffer himself to be led, though by a dog, or a child.

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.

Across the street at the New Orleans headquarters of the Lighthouse for the Blind—a two-story building attached to a four-story stucco lighthouse—another Christmas party was under way, and Wright watched as the sightless guests arrived. Then, before his eyes, a curious scene unfolded. As they were greeted by their hosts, the blind whites were escorted to a large room at the front of the house, whereas the blind Negroes were taken to the rear, where they stayed. Separated. Transfixed, Wright had to look twice before it dawned on him: 'They couldn’t see to segregate themselves

After her sister's visit, Marthe's head was brimming with new pictures: the fields of lavender at Valensole, all the subtle grades of blue and purple; the way twilight melted them all into one; the precise hues of the liquid distilled from each plant, the shape and color of the bottles, and a new understanding of the surroundings where she was learning her craft. Just as plant variations were bred together to crete new hybrids- like the lavandin from the delicate wild lavender- this was what she did with the descriptions her sister had supplied; she grafted them on to the sights she remembered from childhood and reinvigorated them.

A lie, like a pill, is easier to swallow when you don't think about it.

Anak mata Emak mati sebelum Emak.

All dark and comfortless.

And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?

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.

Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she can’t see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

A world without radio is a deaf world.A world without television is a blind world. A a world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.

AUNT SHADIE: I see you - and don't worry, you're not white. ROSE: I'm pretty sure I'm white. I'm English. AUNT SHADIE: White is blindness - it has nothing to do with the colour of your skin.

A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.

Blind people are the best audience; they will be treated according to the formula; it’s easy to excite them; it’s easy to wake them up from a dream in which they dull, mute and helpless, await excitement—another product of the plastic reality, another star-studded name.

Blind party loyalty will be our downfall. We must follow the truth wherever it leads.

Careful, Arturo Bandini: don't strain your eyesight, remember what happened to Tarkington, remember what happened to James Joyce.

Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love with a voice, and then wake to a feeling of physical loss. Sometimes I close my eyes to a chorus of “Happy Birthday!” The smell of cake and the sound of feet under the table. I awake in a body that’s too big. I also dream in motion and sensation. My father’s boat and the snore of the mast; the rough fabric of the safety harness and the rip of Velcro. The sun on my legs. And endless stretch of water impossible to imagine.

– C’est ce receveur, expliqua le conducteur. – Ah ! dit Amadis. – Il aime pas les voyageurs. Alors, il s’arrange pour qu’on parte sans voyageur et il ne sonne jamais. Je le sais bien. – C’est vrai, dit Amadis. – Il est fou, vous comprenez, dit le machiniste. – C’est ça… murmura Amadis. Je le trouvais bizarre. – Ils sont tous fous à la Compagnie. – Ça ne m’étonne pas ! – Moi, dit le conducteur, je les possède. Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois. Vous avez un couteau ? – J’ai un canif. – Prêtez.