Blindness Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke Download Open image “...a carefree letting go of oneself, not a caution, but a wise blindness.” — Rainer Maria Rilke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blindness Carefree Caution Letting go Oneself Wisdom Wise
I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust. — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
“But I had deliberately acquired the habit of closing my eyes even to such obvious assumptions, just as though I did not want to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“There is a measure of safety in blindness, but you can't find happiness in safety, no matter how much you want to.” — Maria Rachel Hooley Copy Share Image
My eyes see the danger; my heart knows the outcome, but my mind decided to take the risk. Weakness; takes over. — London Mond Copy Share Image
“An ‘eye for an eye’ shall leave you all blind. It’s sometimes better to walk away and know you will still be able to… — Michelle Horst Copy Share Image
It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never maintain a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“psychological safety—the belief that you can take a risk without being penalized or punished.” — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity. — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Out of infinite longings rise finite deeds like weak fountains, falling back just in time and trembling. And yet, what otherwise remains silent, our… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But this is what ... people are so often and disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things. Things will not abandon you. The nights are… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You life will find its own paths... and that they be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I do not want to be folded for where I am folded, there I am a lie. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I guess I was so blinded by who I wanted you to be, that I didn't see who you really were. — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
I will love you till a mute women tells his deaf friend about a blind women that saw a girl with no legs walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“And the blind man said to the deaf man, "Do you see what I hear?” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays— there let… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness! — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were blind received… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
