Quotes About Blindness

Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. Sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know... The light of horror thus lost its harshness, and the world was bathed in a gentle, bluish light that actually beautified it.

Não se pode, portanto, criticar o romance por seu fascínio pelos encontros misteriosos dos acasos (...) mas se pode, com razão, criticar o homem por ser cego a esses acasos, privando assim a vida da sua dimensão de beleza.

Sim, neste minuto, Frantisek e Kamila são projectados no espaço na nossa narrativa como dois foguetões guiados à distância por um ciúme cego; mas como pode uma cegueira guiar seja o que for?)

Tapi benar untuk mencaci manusia karena ia buta terhadap 'coincidence' yang terjadi dalam kehidupan sehari-harinya. Karena dengan begitu, ia menghilangkan dimensi keindahan dari hidupnya.

Un hombre con los ojos cerrados es una ruina de hombre.

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all.

Leto, I know you're only acting out of love, but sometimes love can guide a person in the wrong direction. Love can blind us to the truth. You're on the wrong path, my Duke, and you know it in your heart." Although he turned away from her, she did not relent. "You must never love the dead more than the living.

Those who think they see most clearly are often more blind than the rest.

A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

Pero la vida no sabe a donde se dirige. No tiene un plan a largo plazo. No tiene una finalidad en mente. No tiene una finalidad en mente. No hay mente que abrigue una finalidad. (...) La vida es derrochadora, ciega, indiferente en este nivel a las nociones de justicia.

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind, Gaze not before and glance not behind, Mark not the shadow that darkens the way- Regret not the glitter of any lost day, But laugh with no reason except the red wine, For youth must be youthful and foolish and blind!

Humans have blinded themselves to the reality of what they are doing. When you closely examine the path they have taken, you come to realize it leads directly to extinction.

When yo hold your nose so high in the air, you can't see where you are going.

Some are simply blind to the truth and fight for the lies they hear.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see. If we refuse to face our shadow, it will project itself on someone else so we have no choice but to engage.

Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we're blind, all the "solutions" we can think of will actually make matters worse.

Think about it: if I'm sure I'm right, there is little hope of seeing where I am failing. So I keep trying the same old things—the same lectures, for example, and the same punishments. And I keep getting the same outcomes: others with problems. On the one hand, I hate it, but on the other hand, I get my justification, which is what I most want when I'm in the box. My need for justification blinds me to all kinds of possibilities. Even to the obvious ones.

Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.

People rarely achieved greatness because they were too blinded by daily routine even to try anything extraordinary. For Cutler mediocrity was a failure of will, not talent.

In a blank wall you may well fear the blindness which sees through you and sees you through.

Not only is love blind, it's a little hard of hearing.

Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see that they were all fighting for the same thing- for the men to leave this island. Insanity!