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Quotes About Blindness

American feminism has always had a puritanical strain, an imposed blindness to erotic truth.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I think love is blind. You don't see it, you don't hear what people are saying, or what you're saying. You don't see what you're doing. All you see is the person in front of you. That's it.
~ Selena
Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
~ William Shakespeare
Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
The remedy for all blunders, the cure of blindness, the cure of crime, is love.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.
~ Cassandra Clare
Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
~ Propertius
But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.
~ Thomas Merton
Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is blind, friends close their eyes
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Love sees all; hate is blind.
~ Janet Morris
They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.
~ Victor Hugo
Blinders als blind ist die Aengstlicher
~ Max Frisch
Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it
~ Max Lucado
Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it.
~ Max Lucado
All I can think is if Dave Fernandez, who's been through so much pain and heartache, can navigate the crowded paths of Washington Square Park without being able to see, surely I can navigate the paths of my own life, murky as they've gotten lately.
~ Meg Cabot
often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
~ Mercedes Lackey
what haunts the heart will, when it is found, leap foremost, blinding the eye and leaving the main of Life in darkness.
~ Mervyn Peake
Un om îngrijorat este pe jum?tate orb
~ Bernard Malamud
reassembling the last pieces of the puzzle, I discovered something almost worse than nonintervention, blindness, and betrayal: when America decided to react, when it seemed to take the measure of the rout that it was inflicting on itself and finally spoke up, however timidly, its words fell flat and were ignored.
~ Bernard-Henri Levy
Flucht ist hier nicht die Beschäftigung mit der Vergangenheit, sondern gerade die entschlossene Konzentration auf Gegenwart und Zukunft, die blind ist für das Erbe der Vergangenheit, von dem wir geprägt sind und mit dem wir leben müssen
~ Bernhard Schlink
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
~ John Banville
My first broadcast partner provided color commentary even though he was totally blind. Leroy McGuirk was a former NCAA Wrestling Champion at Oklahoma State University and long time kingpin of the NWA Junior Heavyweight Division before losing his sight in a car accident in Little Rock in the early 1950s.
~ Jim Ross
Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
~ Michael Schenker