Blind Quotes - Page 29

• How could you have guessed?” Miserable though Will was, he felt free, as if a heavy burden had been displaced from him. “I did all I could to hide and deny it. You—you never hid your feelings. Looking back, it was clear and plain, and yet I never saw it. I was astonished when Tessa told me that you were engaged. You’ve always been the source in my life of such good things, James. I never thought you would be the source of pain, and so, wrongly, I never thought of your feelings at all. And that is why I was so blind.

  Cassandra Clare

  Pain, Feelings, Would Be

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor or pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Pain, Home

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• Love was not only blind, it often careened into Blithering Idiotsville as well.

  Darynda Jones

  Wells

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.259, Macmillan

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• And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.

  James Agee

  Stars, Lying, Winter

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.66, Penguin

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• The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Wish, Lannisters

  George R. R. Martin (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister”, p.65, Bantam

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• In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

  Michael Grant

  Kings, Men, Land

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• To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.

  Brennan Manning

  Beautiful, Reality, Evil

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.59, David C Cook

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• Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable - that is, human - men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.

  Alan Watts

  War, Fighting, Simple

  "The Way of Zen".

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• A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Light, Darkness, Shadow

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Something in him was broken, and through that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away

  Cassandra Clare

  Hurt, Broken, Needs

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Prince”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I pranced around the room like a blind moose, but what I lacked in grace I made up for in effort.

  Kiera Cass

  Effort, Grace, Rooms

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• If patriotism were defined, not as blind obedience to government, not as submissive worship to flags and anthems, but rather as love of one's country, one's fellow citizens (all over the world), as loyalty to the principles of justice and democracy, then patriotism would require us to disobey our government, when it violated those principles.

  Howard Zinn

  Loyalty, Country, Government

  Howard Zinn (1990). “Declarations of Independence: Cross-examining American Ideology”, Perennial

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• That's because you loved me. You just didn't know it yet." "You didn't know it either. You were just as blind as me.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Knows

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Forever of Ella and Micha”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

  Colum McCann

  Optimism, Darkness, Sometimes

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• Doing as others told me, I was Blind. Coming when others called me, I was Lost. Then I left everyone, myself as well. Then I found Everyone, Myself as well.

  Rumi

  Lost, Found, Wells

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• Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Selfishness

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Heart, Eye, Looks

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• It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

  Booth Tarkington

  Mean, Age, Quality

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• Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Light, Sceptic

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.787, My Ebook Publishing House

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• She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Men, Merit

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• Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Cat

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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Idiot, Terrible

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• So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?

  Veronica Roth

  Tobias, Desperation, My Own

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• Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

  Pietro Aretino

  Anger, Pride, Men

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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 all senses.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Imagination

  Helen Keller (2013). “The World I Live In”, p.42, The Floating Press

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