Quotes About Blindness

Actually, being blind is not so bad. If you're born this way, you never know anything else and you don't wonder about it. Though I'd hate to have lost my sight after being able to see.

I've got very poor sight.

If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.

Losing my sight had nothing to do with my focus on music. My passion for music was already there, so it would be a mistake to give too much significance to my blindness.

Bran said, Why should some of the Riders of the Dark be dressed all in white and the rest all in black? Without colour.... Will said reflectively. I don't know. Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes-- blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.

The serenity and the transcendence of self that you found are to me exemplary. You showed that it is not necessary to be unhappy, even while one is clear-eyed and undeluded about how terrible everything is. Somewhere you said that a writer — delicately you added: all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. (You were speaking of your blindness.)

In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.

El cielo está tan alto, y mis ojos tan sin mirada, que vivía contenta con saber dónde quedaba la tierra.

Anders als Liebe macht Angst tatsächlich blind.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.

If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind…for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Saviour.

Muddy Hole was not connected to St. John's at all except by a tenuous trail which, it is believed, was made some centuries ago by a very old caribou who was not only blind but also afflicted with the staggers.

Before the Dawn" But like love the archers are blind Upon the green night, the piercing saetas leave traces of warm lily. The keel of the moon breaks through purple clouds and their quivers fill with dew. Ay, but like love the archers are blind!

Cuando me dejaban solo con los dos ciegos y ellos conversaban, no tenía en cuenta constantemente que eran ciegos; y de pronto me sorprendía que tomando la conversación un giro o una actitud íntima, ellos no se miraran, ni hicieran movimientos correspondientes a lo que estábamos acostumbrados a ver en las personas que tienen vista; y así, ellos creaban a mis ojos una nueva forma de movimientos correspondientes a la conversación.

Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men's eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.

Strange, then, is the blindness of the intellect, which does not consider that which it sees first and without which it can know nothing.

If the whole world was blind, how many people would you impress?

Love blinds, yes, bit not nearly as much as wanting to be loved.

To have your face rolled down over your eyes and not even to notice your blindness. That's dead, I think, as dead as it's possible to be.

Like a blind dolphin, the night of the new moon silently drew near.

The pursuer's blind spot is that he never thinks he's being pursued.

It's like I'd been born with a blind spot, and was always missing something. And what I missed was always the most important thing of all.

I could no longer look at him. I wished, in fact, for blindness.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.