Quotes About Vision

Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

Starting anew with a clean slate has been one of the most harmful ideas in history. It treats previous knowledge as an impediment and imagines that only present knowledge deployed in theoretical purity can make real the wondrous new vision.

In the genre of science fiction it is more important to be fruitfully mistaken than dully accurate. That's why we are science fiction writers, not scientists.

Their lilting laughter sounded like crazy birds and rippling water; rising and falling. My hand had begun to throb with a dull pain, and my vision seemed somehow faded. Colours blended like wet paint before my eyes. I was dizzy, thrown from person to person in the crowd; hands caught me and pushed me away. I struggled to pass through them.

Finnigin found himself outside on the street, his vision disturbed by swirling motes of light and shade.

Show us the face of the oracle, he who must be ours.

Leonid saw what he wanted to see, a world shining with the light of Madragore.

Behind my closed eyelids, the world was red and black, shot with flames and blood.

He opened his eyes, and the sight of the crystal city, in all its splendour, came at his sensitive pupils like a hail of spears.

He looked at the girl of hidden colours and saw a few of her paths, radiating off, diminishing glows.

I know you think we don't need Daniel, and that I am capable of doing what he does myself, but he represents our aim and what the results of success should be. A flowering.

When they hit the surface, Ays had to remind himself consciously to breathe. He opened his eyes and they became filled with lights and colors. For a while, he was unable to recognise shapes with them.

Shadows pulsed on the edge of my vision; I experienced a great feeling of imminence. It was like wings over my head; wings I knew too well.

I lay down among the the rocks, and they were gold and crimson like a royal tomb. I saw wonderous shapes rise from the fumes, twisting and curling like cats about me. They breathed upon me and filled me with fire. I saw myself leading armies. I saw myself killing men, and in my heart I felt a fierce glee. I saw myself ridding the world of all that was worthless.

He was inventing the world beyond, peopling it, making them live.

A person yearning for suicide is afraid of nothing, surely. And this incredible twin, rising through the water wearing his own face, seemed a terrible thing to face. He was afraid of losing himself to the vision, the bright Finnigin that had risen to rebirth.

Jay felt she could sense the overlapping layers of reality all around, just beyond her perception. But how could she see them? She felt it might be similar to the way the eyes could focus on a computer generated image, and perceive a shape in the chaotic pattern. If she concentrated hard enough, she was sure an image would suddenly loom before her, clear and definite.

He was able to see, which was certainly a good sign, but the water was murky, filled with debris, so his sight was limited. Ays expanded his mind with a single thought: up. He relaxed, and felt his body ascend, as if drawn by a rope above. His vision became cloudy, sparkling. His lungs screamed for breath. Soon. Soon. Do not give in, do not give up. He reached upwards with his hands, reaching for light, for air.

il domani potrà albeggiare solo con una certa dose di delirio e di follia.

You gotta imagine what's never been.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

Sight is about contrast. You cannot see an object if there is nothing to contrast it against.

Live for aims not for dames.