Quotes About Blindness

We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

Palabras hermosas realidad prosaica y miserable. Los ciegos serían felices en este país, que para la lengua es paraíso y para los ojos infierno.

Soy ciego, sí, señor—añadió el joven—; pero sin vista sé recorrer de un cabo a otro las minas de Socartes. El palo que uso me impide tropezar, y Choto me acompaña, cuando no lo hace la Nela, que es mi lazarillo. Con que sígame usted y déjese llevar.

Los ciegos serían felices en este país, que para la lengua es paraíso y para los ojos infierno.

In his last years, Michelangelo worked on new pietà sculptures—not for any pope, but for his own diversion and probably for his own tomb. His eyesight had never recovered from his torment on the ceiling of the Sistine, and by this point in his life he was almost blind. He was sculpting more by feel than by sight—and yet he persevered, even trying new carving techniques right up until six days before his death.

To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light.

This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.

Cruel it may be, but most of us enjoy what we do—and the Captain more than anyone. This is a favorite game, matching wits with a Raker. He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.

There is nothing so unreasonable and irrational and blind—and just plain silly-looking—as a man who works himself into an obsessive passion.

How hard do we work to blind ourselves to things that we don't want to see?

This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

What's interesting to 'Vikings' the series is that Horik is so blind in his greed and his desire for revenge that he can't hear reason, and he's probably so insecure about Ragnar that he won't take his advice. And straight up, honestly, if you ever have to say to someone, 'Hey, remember, I'm the king?' It's too late, and you've lost your authority.

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does.

Notwendig man viel Narren findet, Denn viel sind an sich selbst erblindet, Die mit Gewalt wollen weise sein, Da jedermann mit klarem Schein Wohl ihre Narrheit sieht.

L'amour est aveugle et sa canne est rose

Meil? akla, jeigu tu užsimerki. Meil? nekantri, ji laukia džiaugsmo, o ne laim?s.

That was horrifying. Fear had blinded me to this but the situation had changed. What if I were found out? Exposed. Prosecuted. Disbarred. My life would crumble. I would have no job, my prospects would be dismal, and it was impossible to know how Spaulding would react. And the only person whose opinion mattered, the only one, was Spaulding.

Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

His years of dependency were past. It was time to grow up and take charge. It was not going to be easy. But he had long ago realized that he must treat his blindness as a challenge rather than as a handicap if he wished to enjoy anything like a happy, fulfilled life.

It seems we have been sharing a mutual blindness, he said very quietly.

Keegi ei ole nii pime kui see, kes ei taha näha.