Quotes About Blindness

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.

Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

SIN IS THE MONSTER we love to deny. It can stalk us, bite a slice out of our lives, return again and bite again, and even as we bleed and hobble, we prefer to believe nothing has happened. That makes sin the perfect monster, a man-eater that blinds and numbs its victims, convincing them that nothing is wrong and there is no need to flee, and then consumes them at its leisure.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

It's a subtle and powerful thing, prescience. The future becomes now. To be sighted in the land of the blind carries its own perils. If you try to interpret what you see for the blind, you tend to forget that the blind possess an inherent movement conditioned by their blindness. They are like a monstrous machine moving along its own path. They have their own momentum, their own fixations. I fear the blind, Stil. I fear them. They can so easily crush anything in their path.

Bojim se slijepih, Stil. Bojim ih se. Oni tako lako mogu slomiti sve što im se na?e na putu.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness, Paul thought.

Exist? multe feluri de a vedea È™i multe feluri de a fi orb. (...) Ce simÈ›uri ne lipsesc de nu putem vedea o alt? lume în jurul nostru?

One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. "Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. "Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he'll never see anything.

El hombre martirizado por sus demonios se venga ciegamente en su prójimo

Political correctness is a poison to our security and defenses. It imposes a willful blindness, both at the macro level when unwilling to engage with radical Islamism or whatever you want to call it - if you're not willing to call it what it is - and at the micro level, at the street level.

The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.

On dit que l'amour est aveugle mais avec toi, qui sait, la cécité est peut-être une façon de voir...

You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

Lust leaves you blind long after you've lost your mind in bed.

I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of a psychic blindness. With all his science and knowledge, in the mystic world he blundered.

The fear that truth should prove uninteresting is known only to weak-stomached artists. Respect the mysteries, they say. Do not open Pandora's box. Poetic vision is not the outcome of blindness but of a force which can transcend the ugliest face of reality, swallow and dissolve it by its strength, not evasion.

She was blinded, deafened, made senseless.

Oh, God, today I pray [to] you on my knees for Dostoevsky's obscurity, blindness, the most sacred and precious of all things.