Quotes About Blindness

They blinded themselves to the obvious. That is the great triumph of mindless need over intelligence and the human spirit.

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.

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

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness for the realization of definitive recognition and reconciliation.

On second thought, it's a good thing love is blind otherwise it would see too much.

How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle's is its sight.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

Love is blind, you just see bright light

Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.

Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him?

We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

De esta ciudad de libros hizo dueños a unos ojos sin luz

When you're in the paradigm, you can't see the paradigm.

The jawbone-I have a topaz pin for that. The wrist and skin-sapphire. I keep the diamonds for your eyes, my beautiful. But blindness is not yet. Nor death. This shall be a long game. Revel in it, my dear.

Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.

The sight of her stunned me. Ropes of dense fog wrapped around her chest and neck, and the offshoots wove their way into her eyes, her ears, her mouth. She stood in a thin, shifting fog. And she was clearly unaware of any of it. Unaware that she'd bound herself to fear, which blinded her to the kingdom of heaven, in which she was the light.

invaded you and blinded you to the light.

The kingdom of heaven is the perception of light. If your perception is clear, you will see that your whole body is full of light. Only blindness keeps anyone from seeing it.