Quotes About Blindness

she's teaching me to read to be blind sighted.

she's teaching me to see to be blind sighted.

Estamos tan ciegos que, mientras el mundo nos observa y da muestras de desaprobación, no somos capaces de visualizar la gran brecha existente entre nuestras palabras y nuestro proceder en la vida cotidiana.

errors and mistakes, however gross, in matters of opinion, if they are sincere, are to be pitied, but not punished nor laughed at. The blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied as the blindness of the eye; and there is neither jest nor guilt in a man's losing his way in either case. Charity bids us set him right if we can, by arguments and persuasions; but charity, at the same time, forbids, either to punish or ridicule his misfortune.

The last message he'd had from him was on the back of a postcard with a picture of the Duke of Edinburgh on the front, and the farewell message, handwritten in blue biro in Paul's looping, confident hand, had said, 'Suck a black man's cock for me, darling.' He had been spared blindness, then. The next he had heard was a hoarse-voiced man announcing himself as Paul's father, and Paul had died in the hospice.

ran on blindly into the blind dark.

The sense comes back to me of life as it always was then, an affliction even blinder because wondrously filled with sweetness.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

He knows how love blinds people to the truth about the one they are in love with.

Now that I'm blind, I can see there is nothing to see.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

La ceguera gradual no es cosa trágica. Es como un lento atardecer de verano.

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

Tasalanma, yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ artan körlük pek trajik deÄŸil. A??r bir yaz akÅŸam? gibi.

Mathematical theory, tested in practice and constantly retested, is a valuable aid to play. Mathematics alone will blind you and let others rob you.

par quelle cécité les hommes s'empêchent-ils de vivre leur vérité?

The sun pressed down on his eyelids, a hot illumination that would soon make him feel drowsy. This must be the way blind people absorbed light into their heads: raising their faces to the sun, to Ra, god of the blind. Everyone needed real light, not just the artificial, thought-up light of the imagination.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

To be honest, I'm no Marie Kondo at the best of times. I like living in comfortable clutter and have a peculiar kind of perception that enables me to ignore it. I call it Mess Blindness.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

Many asses have only two legs.

In order to live, I have to blind myself to my infinitesimal dimensions in this infinite universe.

This truth has not only a subjective value, but is manifested in every department of our life. And nations who sedulously cultivate moral blindness as the cult of patriotism will end their existence in a sudden and violent death.