Quotes About Blindness

Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

We are blind to the fact that what we do to them deprives them of their rights; we do not want to see this because we profit from it, and so we make use of what are really morally irrelevant differences between them and ourselves to justify the difference in treatment.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes.

It is hard to be so old, and harder still to be so blind. I miss the sun. And books. I miss the books most of all.

A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes," the Mountain declared. "Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two . . . and if not, the man after him will have six.

It's not," Mormont told him. "Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?

Reading books by candlelight will make you blind.

His wits have gone dark as his eyes

Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see,

Life is judged with all the blindness of life itself.

The sun gives us light, but the moon provides inspiration. If you look at the sun without shielding your eyes, you'll go blind. If you look at the moon without covering your eyes, you'll become a poet.

Fear of trouble, present and future, often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy, silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

The blindness of Winston Churchill turned him into a Zionist dupe and trapped him into triggering WWII, with its millions of victims. It is to be regretted that some right-wingers are following his path by supporting Zionism and pushing for WWIII.

A kad god mi tako mislimo da su nam se za nešto otvorile o?i, to obi?no zna?i da smo ih za stotinu drugih stvari zatvorili.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

We cannot shrink in disgust from our neighbour's touch because his hands, that are clean now, were once dirty. We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

Don Quijote dijo entonces: "Buen hombre, no ves el mundo mismo sino solo las medidas que lo envuelven en un velo. ¡Ay de ti, ciego!".

As they went by Assail, the male was watching them. Jesus, he really is blind Wrath pulled up short and unsheathed his dagger, pointed it directly into the guys face. But my hearing is just fine

Tragedy, like love, makes people blind.

La tragedia, como el amor, hace que la gente se vuelva ciega.

Tragedy, like love, makes people blind," he said, as if he could read her regrets.

As they stood together, united against the winter wind, the darkness in his body was pierced by a warm glow. Her love was the light in his blindness. The feel of her was the heaven he didn't need to see to know. And if she had this much faith in him, she was his courage and his purpose, too.