Blindness Quotes
305 Blindness quotes by 260 unique authors
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Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;…
— Michelangelo
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I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome…
— Helen Keller
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If God is the Creator of all things and evil is a thing, then God is the Creator of evil and He is to be…
— Peter Kreeft
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I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional…
— Alex Haley
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The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the…
— Carlos Fuentes
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The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.
— Gregory Maguire
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I did not feel drawn to huxley. He was beautiful physically but again without vibrations or sensory antennae... and I had a painful impression of…
— Anais Nin
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In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand…
— Pascal Mercier
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When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a…
— Margaret Atwood
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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact…
— Aleister Crowley
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Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness
— Stephenie Meyer
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Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell…
— James Patterson
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Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;…
— John Locke
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian…
— John Berryman
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I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a…
— Harry Crews
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He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation…
— Nora Roberts
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But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going,…
— Ayn Rand
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You called and shouted and burst my deafness. You flashed, shone, and scattered my blindness. You breathed odors, and I drew in breath and panted…
— Saint Augustine
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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
— John Milton
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
— Charles Dickens
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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection…
— Stephen Colbert
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Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude…
— Jack London
Who Wrote These Blindness Quotes
260 authors contributed a total of 305 Blindness Quotes, led by these top contributors: