#Blindness Quotes

“Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.”

“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”

“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.”

“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”

“If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark”

“If love be blind, it best agrees with night”

“Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!”

“But love is blind and lovers cannot see”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.”

“Those men that in their writings are most wiseOwn nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”

“They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.”

“It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.”

“We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.”

“Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing.”

“Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.”

“The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.”

“The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another.”

“That Justice is a blind goddessIs a thing to which we black are wise:Her bandage hides two festering soresThat once perhaps were eyes.”

“I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.”

“It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.”

“What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.”

“What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision.”

“I cannot remember how I felt when the light went out of my eyes. I suppose I felt it was always night and perhaps I wondered why the day did not come.”

“The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.”

“Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.”

“What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.”

“The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.”

“The worst thing in the world is not to be born blind, but to be born with sight, and yet have no vision.”

“Worse than being blind would be to be able to see but not have any vision.”

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

“Love is blind, friends close their eyes”

“The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.”

“If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?”