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Quotes About Blindness

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness. I was, as I said, only three years old, but I remember how he left. He
~ Peter Høeg
And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
~ Genesis 19:11
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
~ Genesis 27:1
ëCursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í
~ Deuteronomy 27:18
The LORD will afflict you with madness, blindness, and confusion of mind,
~ Deuteronomy 28:28
and at noon you will grope about like a blind man in the darkness. You will not prosper in your ways. Day after day you will be oppressed and plundered, with no one to save you.
~ Deuteronomy 28:29
And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room.
~ 1 Samuel 3:2
Now Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his gaze was fixed because he could not see.
~ 1 Samuel 4:15
Jeroboamís wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijahís house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.
~ 1 Kings 14:4
As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
~ 2 Kings 6:18
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
~ Job 9:24
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
~ Job 12:25
May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.
~ Psalm 69:23
they have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell;
~ Psalm 115:6
they have hands, but cannot feel; they have feet, but cannot walk; they cannot even clear their throats.
~ Psalm 115:7
They have mouths, but cannot speak; they have eyes, but cannot see;
~ Psalm 135:16
Stop and be astonished; blind yourselves and be sightless; be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not from strong drink.
~ Isaiah 29:9
For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.
~ Isaiah 29:10
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
~ Isaiah 42:7
I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
~ Isaiah 42:16
Listen, you deaf ones; look, you blind ones, that you may see!
~ Isaiah 42:18
Who is blind but My servant, or deaf like the messenger I am sending? Who is blind like My covenant partner, or blind like the servant of the LORD?
~ Isaiah 42:19
Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
~ Isaiah 43:8
They do not comprehend or discern, for He has shut their eyes so they cannot see and closed their minds so they cannot understand.
~ Isaiah 44:18