Quotes About Blind

it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway station, and death or the meeting of Beethoven, Tomas, Tereza, and the cognac), but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Is it wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway station, and death or the meeting of Beethoven, Tomas, Tereza, and the cognac), but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.

God is love, the parson whined. Yes, and is he also blind?

If love be blind, it best agrees with night

When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it's wrong.

Love was not only blind, it often careened into Blithering Idiotsville as well.

Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead.

Were you always such a stubborn, blind, obtuse girl?""Are you calling me stupid?""Yes, but in a more poetic way!""Well, here's a poem for you. Get lost!

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

Wait and wonder when we will return, mouse - then you will really see what a battle is like. Simeon turned his head in the direction of Graypatch's voice. Alas, I will never see anything for I am blind; but I can sense a lot. I can feel you are both evil and desperate. They say you have only one eye. I am surprised at you—even a fool with half an eye could see that you will never triumph against good if you are evil.

I found it impossible to strive for a goal I couldn't fathom, to re-create a thing of which I'd no knowledge, like a blind man trying to paint a picture of sky and clouds and sun.

That prisoner of society's world, That sacrifice to vanity, The blind slave of custom, That small-souled being isn't you.

If you let true love escape you, all for the sake of your worldly fame, one day you will wake up and realize you are no better than I - a blind, bloody fool.

And so, for the first of many times, I said the Prayer of God's Smuggler: 'Lord, in my luggage I have Scripture that I want to take to Your children across this border. When You were on earth, You made blind eyes see. Now, I pray, make seeing eyes blind. Do not let the guards see those things You do not want them to see.

As, blind and deaf, the whale plunged forward, as if by sheer power of speed to rid himself of the iron leech that had fastened to him; as we thus tore a white gash in the sea

Look you now, how ready mortals are to blame the gods. It is from us, they say, that evils come, but they even of themselves, through their own blind folly, have sorrows beyond that which is ordained.

the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.