Blindness Quotes
Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
2958 Helen Keller
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
2922 Soren Kierkegaard
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
2531 Jonathan Safran Foer
I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?
2360 Michael Bassey Johnson
Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.
1213 Emlyn Chand
They say that right before you die your whole life flashes before you – a medley of your own personal greatest hits. Well then, I must be about to live, because events that haven’t happened yet are constantly pushing themselves into my head.
4091 James Patterson
And you're blind?"
Uh-huh," Iggy said, trying to sound bored.
Were you born that way?"
No."
How did you become blind, uh, Jeff, is it?"
Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.
4059 Anthony Doerr
When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?
2513 Daniel Wallace
You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.
2310 Aniekee Tochukwu
Blessed are the doubters: for they shall not be easily fooled.
1756 Pierre-Jean De Béranger
Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
4261 José Saramago
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
4718 Sol Luckman
The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.
4367 Sheri S. Tepper
Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
1092 Amit Kalantri
People in blind love throw away common sense, conscience and comedy from the life.
1115 Ben Mitchell
Love isn’t blind… It just involves a lot of looking the other way
4427 Selva Millheiser
In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.
2269 Margaret Cho
Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
3243 Zhuangzi
Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.
1823 Henry David Thoreau
There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.
3272 Koushun Takami
I didn't realize it until now, but I don't really know anything about them, or what kind of people they are, really. You can't see inside a person's heart.
2803 Ernest Becker
[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal preoccupations so far removed from the reality of his situation that they are forms of madness, but madness all the same.
1295 Nicole Rae
When life's got you down, keep your head up... you can't see the ground anyway
4931 José Saramago
The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.
3198 Bryant McGill
The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.
1309 James Joyce
What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?
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