Blindness Quotes - Page 2

• An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Revenge, Eye

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• But love is blind and lovers cannot see

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Venice, Blind

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 2, sc. 6, l. 36

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

  Tertullian

  Two, Kind

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• Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

  Stevie Wonder

  Blessed, Able, Lasts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

  William J. Clinton

  Justice, Diversity, Vision

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2783, Best Books on

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• It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

  Alexander Herzen

  Goal, Atheism, Insane

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• We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness.

  William Carlos Williams

  Blind

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• When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

  George Farquhar

  Marriage, Fall, Wonder

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.508

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• The heathen in his blindness
  Bows down to wood and stone.

  Reginald Heber

  Stones, Woods, Bows

  'From Greenland's icy mountains' (1821 hymn). Heber later altered 'Ceylon's isle' to 'Java's isle'.

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• Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Blind, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• I've fallen for you like a blind roofer.

  Charlie Sheen

  Blind, Shots, Fallen

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• They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

  John Milton

  Eye, People, Reproach

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.92

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• My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Darkness, Intelligence

  Helen Keller (1920). “Out of the Dark: Essays, Lectures, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision”

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• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

  John Milton

  Loss, Sight, Enemy

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.67-79.

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• What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Reality, Space, Might

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• There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

  Gerald Massey

  Kindness, Flower, World

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.87

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• Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

  Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

  Love, Friendship, Blind

  'Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour' (1665) pt. 1

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• An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

  Horatio Nelson

  Eye, Sometimes, Blind

  1801 Said to Captain Foley during the Battle of Copenhagen, 2 Apr. Nelson disregarded the order of his superior, Admiral Hyde-Parker, to break off action and went on to win the engagement.

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• I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Eye, Want

  William Shakespeare (2010). “King Lear”, p.111, Broadview Press

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• He whom nature thus bereaves,
  Is ever fancy's favourite child;
  For thee enchanted dreams she weaves
  Of changeful beauty, bright and wild.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Dream, Children, Fancy

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• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

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• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

  John Milton

  Hope, Dark, Science

  Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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• Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.

  Dolly Parton

  Flirting, Blind, Yeah

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2012

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