Blindness Quote by Ralph Ellison Download Open image “Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.” — Ralph Ellison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blindness Love
Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was… — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think with being blind the one thing you would have going is that you could still feel things, see your way around so… — William Eggleston Copy Share Image
Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Civil wars...are the best wars for the writer...because they have a way of continuing long afterwl wars between nations are resolved; because, with the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“But what a feeling can come over a man just from seeing the things he believes in and hopes for symbolized in the concrete… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Power, for the writer…lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Do they come to bury the others or to be entombed to give life or to receive it?” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“All dreamers and sleepwalkers must pay the price, and even the invisible victim is responsible for the fate of all.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization--pardon me, our whole culture (an important distinction, I've heard)--which might sound like a… — Ralph Ellison 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
