Quotes About Blindness

The less we feel we need to address pride, the more it has already blinded us.

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

People never realize that love is indeed blind. They feel like a soul mate of the loved one. No awful loneliness of spirit. Two against the world. So they marry, and what happens? After a certain time, they look across the breakfast table and find they are looking at a stranger.

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

Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and still loved me; was so blind that she still loved me. One day she had said: When you love me (and she had not meant "make love to me") it's as if God forgave me for being the mess I am; and I took it as chicanery, another emotional blackmail, to make me feel essential and so give me a sense of responsibility towards her.

It makes me sick,the blindness, deadness, out-of-dateness, stodginess and, yes, sheer jealous malice of the great bulk of England.

Of course: because it was in one of the camps that he went blind. They had performed some failed experiment on his eyes in the camp. 'No, not summer camp,' Franny had to tell Lilly, who had always been afraid of being sent to summer camp, and was unsurprised to hear that they tortured the campers.

Aye, on the shores of darkness there is light, And precipices show untrodden green, There is a budding morrow in midnight, There is a triple sight in blindness keen;

Es tan ciego porque sólo ve lo que quiere ver.

Lako je živjeti zatvorenih o?iju, ne shva?aju?i ono što vidiš...

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

the best woman is beautiful inside, most forget that the outside is temporary, but it makes most men blind without they thinking what will happen in future.

When I loved you, you hurt me. When I trusted you, you dissapointed me. When I look in your eyes, I cry. And see how blind I was to fall in love with you.

Dont be mad because I dont care anymore. Be mad because I once did, and you were too blind to see.

You are weak and blind, and it is worse because you choose it.

She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was, or is.

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.

He had always assumed it was a flaw in people, a human failing, that created this need to believe in something beyond the ordinary. Religion existed to control society, to monitor those without the capacity to think things through for themselves, to provide promises and shimmering images in the sky, so that the urges of the masses could be calmed and regulated. What, after all, did the word 'faith' connote, except a willing blindness to the lack of actual proof?

What earth is this so in want of you they rise up on high to seek you in heaven? Look at them staring at you right before their eyes, unseeing, unseeing, blind.

las luces apagadas para evitar verse, tres ciegos reunidos a la hora más triste del día

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You're born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn't change you, that our educational system doesn't teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that's the default position.

Je croyais voir des choses invisibles aux yeux des autres, j'étais encore plus aveugle qu'eux.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

Doth God exact day-labor, light denied,' I fondly ask; but patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, 'God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best, his state Is kingly. Thousands at His bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and wait.' ~Sonnet 19: On His Blindness (1655)~