Quotes About Blindness

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

As to my blindness, I would rather have mine, if it be necessary, than either theirs, More or yours.

How do you feel?" "I have a headache," Lee said. "My muscles are sore. I am dying of thirst. I have to pee. I am restrained. I'm blind. How are you?" "Better than you, I will admit

Her life is one of revenge on other people because of a vague feeling of her own lack. A man born blind must in a sense hate eyes as well as envy them. A blind man might wish to remove all of the eyes in the world.

You know, sometimes love can be staring you right in the face, and you can be too blind to see it.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

A man who seeks only the light, while shirking his responsibilities, will never find illumination. And one who keep his eyes fixed upon the sun ends up blind.

In any case, Swann was blind not only to the gaps in Odette's education, but also to her poverty of mind. Indeed, when she told one of her silly stories, he would listen to her full of an obliging, cheerful, even admiring attentiveness, which could be explained only by his finding her still sexually arousing;

The old imposer it always making his blindness an excuse for disobedience.

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

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

Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

It's crazy how when you're really into someone, you don't even notice anyone else.

When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous.

La ceguera no se resuelve con el desprecio, con la ofensa ni con el insulto, sino con el reconocimiento de que todos somos de alguna manera «marionetas», «títeres» de las pulsiones de los egos.

Adventure becomes hubris when it blinds you to the suffering of the human beings next to you.

It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye. Then it's fun and games you can't see anymore.