Quotes About Sight

Gradual blindness is not a tragedy. It's like a slow summer dusk.

So, too, we may imagine that the sight of the hieroglyphs of Egypt, and the knowledge that thoughts could be conveyed by them, suggested to some Hittite genius the idea of inventing a similar means of intercommunication for his own people.

I wanted to glance one last time over my shoulder, but there was no reason to. Looking behind would only show me the things I'd seen, and everything of importance I could always see

Don't fear the dark places in your mind, otherwise rage will blacken your sight.

vision, making his father's face seem to fade from sight. The heavy weight of his father's head grew lighter. Tom tried

A man who is indifferent to history is a man without hearing, without sight. Such a man can live, of course - but what a life?

My visionary anger cleansing my sight.

I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

I've got extra lenses inside my eyes to try to help me read better. They help with peripheral vision, but I've got no central vision.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

Cameras can only record what they see.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

Should I tell you one thing, I am blind from my right eye. I see only from my left eye. The one you see is someone else's eye which was donated to me after his death. If I close my left eye, I can see no one.

Of course I read Braille, yes.

Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.

Lösch mir die Augen aus: ich kann dich sehn, wirf mir die Ohren zu: ich kann dich hören, und ohne Füße kann ich zu dir gehn, und ohne Mund noch kann ich dich beschwören. Brich mir die Arme ab, ich fasse dich mit meinem Herzen wie mit einer Hand, halt mir das Herz zu, und mein Hirn wird schlagen, und wirfst du in mein Hirn den Brand, so werd ich dich auf meinem Blute tragen.

And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough

The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray.

Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole. The savant becomes unpoetic.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.