Top 66 Blindness Quotes

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

We’re blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We’re not designed to know how little we know.

How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can’t. We shouldn’t. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

My mother had been blind as a child. And so, blindness was something that has long fascinated me, but also it’s something I find really, really scary.

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Virgin Suicides’ by Jeffrey Eugenides, ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri, and ‘Blindness’ by Jose Saramago.

I don’t have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn’t there.

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!

The fact that I have a risk genetically for Alzheimer’s and blindness is not great news. But the reality is that any one of us will have dozens of these risks, and what we have to learn is how to deal with them.

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

I have facial blindness. It’s hugely embarrassing as it makes me seem supercilious or snobbish.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

The rainforest has an intense beauty that at times seems almost suffocating. The jungle is one twig short of impenetrable, and the greenery seems to crowd in on you with a sensation that has been described as akin to snow blindness.

There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged – easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.

I’ve always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I’m involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn’t kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn’t define my life.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

I’ve heard pro-lifers yell at abortion clinic workers that they should ‘Repent!’ Repent of what? They don’t see what they are doing as something that needs to be repented of. Why? Because they are blinded. Do you think yelling at them will remove that blindness? Not likely.

I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them.

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy, ‘The Virgin Suicides’ by Jeffrey Eugenides, ‘The Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri, and ‘Blindness’ by Jose Saramago.

How can we condemn those who are truly blinded by evil? We can’t. We shouldn’t. How do we bring about conversion of those living in blindness? By love. By truth in charity. By offering forgiveness. By offering mercy. With prayer.

There’s no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.

Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma.

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

In 1993, I premiered my solo piece ‘Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far’ at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre. It then went to New York and ran for several months Off-Broadway.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it’s hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I’m not unique in this regard.

Lasting love has to be built on mutual regard and respect. It is about seeing the other person. I am very interested in relationships and, when I watch couples, sometimes I can sense a blindness has set in. They have stopped seeing each other. It is not easy to see another person.