Blindness Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Blindness.
Top Quotes
“None so blind as those that will not see.”
“In regione caecorum rex est luscus.”
“There's none so blind as they that won't see.”
“There's no-one as blind as the fellow that won't see.”
“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
“We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.”
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.”
“Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.”
“He that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”
“Wikipedia: Blindness”
“Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore;
Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.”
“O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of day.”
“O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”
“Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light,
Which I must ne'er enjoy?
What are the blessings of the sight?
Oh, tell your poor blind boy!”
“And when a damp
Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand
The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew
Soul-animating strains—alas! too few.”
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“We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.”
“Jordan rarely, if ever, goes out. "There's no point," he says. "One darkness is the same as another. The only way you can change the landscape for me is to bring in flowers - or pine cones - or fart, for that matter."”
“Judas: All your followers are blind
Too much Heaven on their minds
It was beautiful but now it's sour
Yes, it's all, all gone sour.”
“The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important, than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune. For it means the loss of the most vital stimulus — the sound of the voice that brings language, sets thoughts astir and keeps us in the intellectual company of man.”