Blind Quotes - Page 23

• Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

  Anais Nin

  Life, Children, Pain

  8 Copy quote

• It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

  Andre Breton

  Stupid, Bored, Age

  5 Copy quote

• sometimes people think they're above the laws the rest of us live by. they're blind to their own imperfections.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Thinking, Law, People

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Blind Faith”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

  Jose Saramago

  World, Blindness

  "Blindness". Book by Jose Saramago, October 1997.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Instinct, Stranger In A Strange Land, Prime

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.42, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying, Moving, Dark

  6 Copy quote

• Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.

  James Patterson

  Men, Fire, Guy

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.139, Hachette UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Even from the abyss of horror in which we try to feel our way today, half-blind, our hearts distraught and shattered, I look up again and again to the ancient constellations that shone on my childhood, comforting myself with the inherited confidence that, some day, this relapse will appear only an interval in the eternal rhythm of progress onward and upward.

  Stefan Zweig

  Heart, Onward And Upward, Childhood

  Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson (2014). “The Society of the Crossed Keys”, p.20, Pushkin Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Believe, Speed

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Perfect Match”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, People, Care

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.60, Atlântico Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

  Charles Stanley

  College, Honor, Problem

  16 Copy quote

• POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.76, Faber & Faber

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.

  Meg Rosoff

  Heart, Persistence, Boys

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.41, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

  Helen Keller

  Hands, Purpose, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You know how blind people need Seeing Eye dogs? Well, apparently werewolves could really use Opening Door poltergeists.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Dog, Eye, Doors

  Kelley Armstrong (2010). “The Reckoning: Number 3 in series”, p.271, Hachette UK

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. "You know those things are unreliable." His voice held just a touch of reproach. “Eleven out of twelve work fine. I’d say that’s better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Trying, Twelve

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.80, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.

  Jim C. Hines

  Running, Dumb, Torches

  Jim C. Hines (2006). “Goblin Quest”, p.11, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Blind Spots, Car

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn’t know it. I let stupidity blind me and I lost him because of that. (Artemis) Then tell him you’re sorry. (Kat) As your father would say, there are some things ‘sorry’ can’t repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them. (Artemis)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Sorry, Pain

  4 Copy quote

• That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half-blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Reading, Years

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.66, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Heart, Kissing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’m going to be exposed, aren’t I? (Acheron) I don’t know. You planning on dropping your pants around me? If so, warn me first. I don’t want to go blind. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Want, Pants, Firsts

  4 Copy quote

• Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of potato chips in one hand and the TV remote in the other. He was wearing a black T-shirt that said I BLOGGED YOUR MOM and a pair of jeans that were ripped in one knee. "Never screw with a blind monk.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Anime, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “Sample of the CITYs”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Asmodeus! You don’t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of us? No? Good. I’m leaving now unless Minor Master has another preferably nonpainful task for me. (Asmodeus) You're dismissed. (Jericho) Cool beaners. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Leaving, Tasks

  4 Copy quote

• But somewhere, a child surprises himself with his endurance, his quick mind, his dexterous hands. Somewhere a child accomplishes with ease that which usually takes great effort. And this child, who has been blind to his past, but his heart still beats for the thrill of the race, this child's soul awakens. And a new champion walks among us.

  Garth Stein

  Children, Heart, Past

  4 Copy quote