Blind Quotes - Page 28

• I don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.

  Tammara Webber

  Believe, Mean, Fighting

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Good For You”, p.15, Tammara Webber

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• It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

  David Mitchell

  Reading, Novel

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.365, Random House Group

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• (...)how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the blind, deaf stone alone with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

  Christopher McCandless

  Strong, Hands, Finding Yourself

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• But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Special, World, Realizing

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• The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Wings, Bird

  "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, (Ch. V), 1972.

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• Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Oxygen, Silence

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• The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day to day, as if it were blind and did not know where to go, and perhaps it is like that, perhaps it really does not know, it placed itself in our hands, after giving us intelligence.

  Jose Saramago

  Hands, Giving, Miracle

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• I now understand the need for faith - pure, blind, fly-in-the-face-of-reason faith - as a small life preserver in the wild and endless sea of a universe ruled by unfeeling laws and totally indifferent to the small, reasoning beings that inhabit it.

  Dan Simmons

  Faith, Sea, Law

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

  John Green

  Dark, Men, Oblivion

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith.

  Jojo Moyes

  Feet, Matter, Obstacles

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• There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another.

  Libba Bray

  Blind Faith, One Friend

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• But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inexperience, Youth, Headstrong

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

  Jane Roberts

  Eye, Feet, Tongue

  Jane Roberts (1984). “God of jane: a psychic manifesto”, Prentice Hall Direct

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• Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Eye, Privilege

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• Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fire, Hands, Cold

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Children, Real

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• We disliked the rigours of existence, the unfulfilled longings, the enshrined injustices of the world, the labyrinths of love, the ignorance of parents, the fact of dying, and the amazing indifference of the Living in the midst of the simple beauties of the universe. We feared the heartlessness of human beings, all of whom are born blind, few of whom ever learn to see.

  Ben Okri

  Ignorance, Simple, Parent

  "The Famished Road". Book by Ben Okri, 1991.

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• The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Animal, Moles, Looks

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• Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stealing, Photograph, Valuable

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

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• When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.

  Robin Hobb

  Spring, Ideas, Possibility

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.125, Spectra

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• Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat and shake and go half blind from the searing pain . . . which, now that I put it that way, seems really suggestive. But spicy stuff is addictive. That’s a known fact of science.

  Maureen Johnson

  Pain, Sweat, Stuff

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• If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed

  Abbi Glines

  Idiot, Ifs, Destroyed

  Abbi Glines (2013). “The Vincent Boys Extended and Uncut Collection: The Vincent Boys -- Extended and Uncut; The Vincent Brothers -- Extended and Uncut”, p.407, Simon and Schuster

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• We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?” “He’s nearly blind.” “Which explains why he hasn’t hanged himself in that pastel train wreck.” “I thought you were bitching about the gloom-and-doom decorating?” “I free-associate.

  J.R. Ward

  Kings, Train Wrecks, Vampire

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.252, Penguin

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• Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

  Aldo Leopold

  One Thing

  Aldo Leopold (1968). “A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Dumb

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

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