Quotes About Blindness

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it.

We won't be led through the storm of this moment, either by those who love this country blindly or by those who condemn her blindly. For the blind cannot see.

The bigger problem was that I couldn't see that I had a problem.

Sentimentality blinds you!

We never see the signs we don't want to see.

So. Are you going to see him again? Technically, I haven't seen him at all . . . (Heroine is blind - LOL)

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Grant that Luke take me at my worth, she thought, or at least let me not see the difference. Let him be wise or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped completely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

A spiritually evolved person in a former lifetime could choose to have the experiences of spiritual blindness in this lifetime, just to act as a catalyst for someone like you who needed to be more articulate about what you had come to realize.

As far as I am concerned sexuality no longer exists. I used to call this indifference serenity: all at once I have come to see it in another light—it is a mutilation; it is the loss of a sense. The lack of it makes me blind to the needs, the pains, and the joys of those who do possess it.

Não há salvação. Nem mesmo a embriagez do desespero e a resolução cega, porque tu estás aí, nessa cama, na luz selvagem da tua morte.

One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.

As for us, we are nailed in place, free only to direct our gaze, subject to necessity. A blind mechanism, which takes no account of the degree of spiritual perfection, continually tosses people and throws some of them at the foot of the Cross. It depends only on them to keep—or not—their eyes turned towards God through the shaking. It is not that the providence of God is absent. It is by His providence that God willed necessity as a blind mechanism.

Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like ships driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish

You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness-blind!

The blind man cannot move without a guide

TEIRESIAS: You have your eyes but see not where you are in sin, nor where you live, nor whom you live with. Do you know who your parents are? Unknowing you are enemy to kith and kin in death, beneath the earth, and in this life.

What good were eyes to me? Nothing I could see could bring me joy.

Oedipus: (looking up at the sun) 'LIGHT LIGHT LIGHT never again flood these eyes with your white radiance, oh gods my eyes.

Seeing nothing, children, knowing nothing, I became your father

You with your precious eyes, you're blind to the corruption of your life

You, you'll see no more the pain I suffered, all the pain I caused! Too long you looked on the ones you never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness—blind!

never should have seen, blind to the ones you longed to see, to know! Blind from this hour on! Blind in the darkness—blind!

I'd wall up my loathsome body like a prison, blind to the sound of life, not just the sight.