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Blindness Quotes

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Mark Lanegan
“It's hard to know where you are when you're trying to read a map by the light of a falling star.”
Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If we have relegated vision solely to a function of the eyes, we are blind indeed.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sol Luckman
“There are certain pivotal moments in life when clarity replaces its opposite in the blink of an eye.”
Sol Luckman, Cali the Destroyer

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Choosing to ignore what I see to the point that I no longer see it is a formidable blindness wrought by the working of my own hand, And to be led by such a hand is to perish by the cliff that it is certain to lead me off of.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Have you ever thought that ‘the blind leading the blind� is about two people? The former assumes that they know where they’re going. The latter assumes that the former knows where they’re going. And that neither end up in either place.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Audre Lorde
“Growing up Fat Black Female and almost blind in america requires so much surviving that you have to learn from it or die.”
Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Desperation often distorts our vision.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Light is the foundation of sight.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Jon Tsuei
“Don’t mistake his lack of eyesight for a lack of vision.”
Jon Tsuei, Star Wars: Guardians of the Whills - The Manga

José Saramago
“For the first time she asked herself if she has some good reason for wanting to go on living. She should find no reply, replies do not always come when needed, and it often happens that the only possible reply is to wait for them.”
José Saramago

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Blindness is not the inability to see. Rather, it is the choice not to see.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“I have had the privilege of meeting a host of people who are totally blind. Yet despite their blindness, these individuals possess some of the most remarkable vision that I have ever encountered. And every time I meet one these incredible individuals, I am forced to rethink what blindness really is.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

José Saramago
“القدر سيتقلب كثيراً قبل أن يصل إي مكان
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هناك أوقات لايفيد معها الكلام
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الشي المهم هو ألا نفقد احترامنا لأنفسنا
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بمواجهة المحنة تعرف من هم أصدقاءك سواء بالدليل الظاهر أو بالتنبؤ
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رغم إن البلاء عام على الجميع، فهناك دائما من يعيش زمنا
اسوأ من زمن الآخرين
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. قد يسبب الخوف العمى”
José Saramago, Blindness

Rajesh`
“The blind man aspires to appreciate the beauty of the world he cannot see, while the sighted man stares at his phone.”
Rajesh`

Fernand Deligny
“And the human then appears as being what remains, somewhat in tatters, of the Arachnean traversed by the sort of blind meteorite that is consciousness”
Fernand Deligny, The Arachnean and Other Texts

José Saramago
“I removed the patch to satisfy my curiosity and just at that moment I went blind”
José Saramago, Blindness

Haben Girma
“Here at LCB, I'm surrounded by people who understand that blindness is just limited eyesight. With the right tools and training, blind people can compete as equals with sighted peers. Places like LCB exist to help blind people gain the tools and training to succeed. Sadly, our views on blindness are a minority view outside of these walls.”
Haben Girma, Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law

José Saramago
“[...] For the first time she asked herself if she has some good reason for wanting to go on living. She should find no reply, replies do not always come when needed, and it often happens that the only possible reply is to wait for them.”
José Saramago, Blindness

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“A la gloria de los más famosos se adscribe siempre algo de la miopía de los admiradores.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Max Brooks
“The fault lies not in the eyes, but in the mind, a lazy thought process spoiled by a lifetime of optic nerve dependency. Not so for those like me.”
Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

José Saramago
“Je zegt tegen een blinde, Je bent vrij, je zet de deur die hem van de wereld scheidde voor hem open en zegt nogmaals, Je kunt gaan, je bent vrij, en hij gaat niet, daar staat hij midden op straat, samen met de anderen, ze zijn doodsbang, weten niet waar ze heen moeten, er is nu eenmaal geen vergelijking mogelijk tussen leven in een rationeel labyrint,�”
SARAMAGO

José Saramago
“De hond van de tranen liep naar haar toe, hij weet altijd precies wanneer hij nodig is, daarom klemde de vrouw van de oogarts zich aan hem vast, �”
SARAMAGO

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Regardless of how big the victory, we win nothing by trampling the humanity of another.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It is a waste of energy to open your eyes, or to keep them open, when it is completely dark.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Mehmet Murat ildan
“The greatest blindness is to ignore a person in need!”
Mehmet Murat ildan

Anthony T. Hincks
“Love doesn't blind you, but greed does.”
Anthony T. Hincks

Anthony T. Hincks
“Don't become blind to life just because greed inhabits all forms of society.”
Anthony T. Hincks

Audre Lorde
“I never once gave a thought to the days when I believed that bulbs were starburst patterns of color, because that was what all light looked to me.”
Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

Agatha Christie
“That, my friend, I do not tell.'
'Nonsense. Why not?'
Poirot's eyes twinkled. 'Because, mon cher, you are the same old Hastings. You have still the speaking countenance. I do not wish, you see, that you should sit staring at X with your mouth hanging open, your face saying plainly: "This -- this that I am looking at -- is a murderer." '
'You might give me credit for a little dissimulation at need.'
'When you try to dissimulate, it is worse. No, no, mon ami, we must be very incognito you and I. Then, when we pounce, we pounce.' -”
Agatha Christie, Curtain

Kamaran Ihsan Salih
“At that time the society is going to blindness, when the intellectuals are marginalized.”
Kamaran Ihsan Salih