Quotes About Blindness

In continuous, Unending suffering, They are firmly rooted in the five desires Like an ox chasing its own tail. Blinded by greed and desire, They are blind and can see nothing. Seeking neither the Buddha With his great power Nor the Dharma, Which can bring an end to suffering. With deeply entrenched wrong views, They try to use suffering to get rid of suffering.

For love is blynd.

Cupido,Upon his shuldres wynges hadde he two;And blynd he was, as it is often seene;A bowe he bar and arwes brighte and kene.

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

How could he have been so stupid, so blind? David pictured after Goliath could be no one but the biblical David, a special individual. He was not content to portray one man; he was seeking universal man, Everyman, all of whom,from the beginning of time, had faced a decision to strike for freedom

Concerning the blindness and bigotry of people, the pleasures of hatred rise superior even to the instinct of self-preservation.

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

The reality of suicide is far different from the fantasy. Most suicidal thinkers romanticize their death by suicide, failing to realize that any suicide gesture or attempt can result in permanent brain, kidney, or liver damage, loss of limbs, blindness, or even death.

As if controlling one element of his world would keep him from ruin. It was a bad habit that blinded him to other things that could harm him.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. Most of my beholders are blind.

A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.

Wherever love is blind, hatred can't see.

where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.

Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.

Love is whole. Love cannot be divided from itself. Love knows all paths, where even gods and cats are blind.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

This absence of literary culture is actually a marker of future blindness because it is usually accompanied by a denigration of history, a byproduct of unconditional neomania. Outside of the niche and isolated genre of science fiction, literature is about the past. We do not learn physics or biology from medieval textbooks, but we still read Homer, Plato, or the very modern Shakespeare.