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Quotes About Blind

The punter never made her feel quite so taken care of, never made her feel about to be entered by something that didn't know she was there and yet was all about making her feel good anyway, coming in. Entertainment is blind.
~ David Foster Wallace
love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit
~ William Shakespeare
Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.
~ William Shakespeare
Come, he hath hid himself among these trees, To be consorted with the humorous night: Blind is his love and best befits the dark. MERCUTIO: If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
~ William Shakespeare
Help, help, help, I am lost in the very deeps of the earth. Not eight feet underground but two hundred; blind already but not deaf, shuddering in the warm water, fingers burning last grip loosening; one nail, one rusty nail.
~ Winston Graham
Of all the tasks ever set to a Navy none could have appeared more baffling than that of sheltering this enormous traffic and groping deep below the surface of the sea for the deadly elusive foe. It was in fact a game of blind man's buff in an unlimited space of three dimensions.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Two blind people in two separate lifeboats meeting up in the Pacific–the coincidence seems a little far-fetched, no?
~ Yann Martel
One bright day in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. They drew their swords and shot each other. A deaf police man heard the noise, and ran to save the two dead boys. And if you don't believe it's true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
~ Herb Kohl
A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?
~ Herman Melville
This visit has compacted the court's quarrels and intrigues, trapped them in the small space within the town's walls. The travelers have become as intimate with each other as cards in a pack: contiguous, but their paper eyes blind.
~ Hilary Mantel
He was terribly afraid that happiness might be a habit, or a quality knitted into the temperament, or it might be something you learn when you're a child, a kind of language harder than Latin or Greek, that you should have a grasp on by the time you're seven. What if you haven't got that grasp? What if you're in some way happiness-stupid, happiness-blind?
~ Hilary Mantel
I reflected, by experiencing disaster my generation did learn one terribly important thing -- the danger that lies in blind obedience.
~ Unknown
Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
Hardly have we begun to palpate their grief than we find ourselves wondering whether this particular wound was mortal or not, or whether (in our blind doctoring) it's a wound at all. It might just as well be a mouth, which is as wet and as warm.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
She'd say solitude was a lack and nothing more. There's no point discussing it given that she's blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me. In spite of how she's clung to me over the years my point of view doesn't interest her, and this gulf between
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
I've been studying people - a homeless guy in Scotland, a blind accordion player in London - and they've inspired the lyrics I've been writing.
~ Ryan Ross
Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
~ Georges Rouault
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
~ Marquis de Lafayette
No longer can a risk to human life be considered subordinate to blind and increasingly discredited ideology.
~ Gina Miller
Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes.
~ Unknown
Booth died blind and still by faith he trod,Eyes still dazzled by the ways of God.
~ Vachel Lindsay
Is that what you want? To stagger around the afterlife blind and eye-fucked?
~ Unknown