Blind Quotes - Page 22

• On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Ignorance, Men

  Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

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• If a healing technique is demonstrated to have curative properties in properly controlled double-blind trials, it ceases to be alternative. It simply, as Diamond explains, becomes medicine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Healing, Medicine, Technique

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Few things in Avonlea ever escaped Mrs. Lynde. It was only that morning Anne had said, "If you went to your own room at midnight, locked the door, pulled down the blind, and sneezed, Mrs. Lynde would ask you the next day how your cold was!

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Morning, Doors, Next Day

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.260, e-artnow

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• One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  Talking, People, One Day

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.

  James Patterson

  Hate, Break, Fine

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.322, Hachette UK

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• But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that becomes a predictable by-product of it.

  Dennis Lehane

  Eye, Thinking, Often Is

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, Thinking, Arrows

  "The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.

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• I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands. You don't go around thinking 'I love my eyes, I love my hands', do you? But think what it would be like to live without your eyes or your hands. To be mad, or to be blind. I can't talk about it. It's how I feel.

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• The lions sing and the hills take flight.
  The moon by day, and the sun by night.
  Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
  Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Moon, Night

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

  Azar Nafisi

  Pain, Lying, Heart

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.132, Random House

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• Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

  Shirley Jackson

  Wise, Thinking, Think Of Me

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.114, Penguin

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• But my favorite of Einstein's words on religion is "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." I like this because both science and religion are needed to answer life's great questions.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Lame, Answers

  Temple Grandin (2009). “Thinking in Pictures”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.

  John Berger

  Medicine, Soul, Mountain

  John Berger (1995). “Adventure of painting”

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• Sometimes looking so hard can make one blind.

  William Wharton

  Sometimes, Hard

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• Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!

  James Patterson

  Funny, Towels

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• We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

  Glenn Beck

  Justice, Want, Empathetic

  Glenn Beck (2009). “Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Ouf-of-Control Government, Inspired by Thomas Paine”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Feelings, Crucible, Salt

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• You just looked..." she said, searching for the word, "taken, you know? Plus you hardly reacted to Wes. I mean, you did alittle, but nothing like most girls. It was a little swoon. Not a sa-woon, you know?" I said, "Sa-woon? Oh, come on," she said shaking her head. "Even a blind girl could tell he is amazing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Taken, Mean

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• No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Childhood, Parent, Adults

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• And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Daughter, Home

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Charles Dickens: The Complete Christmas Books and Stories [A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Christmas Tree, The Cricket on the Hearth, etc] (Book House)”, p.30, Book House

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• Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls." Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Girl, Moving, White

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• I've never thought of you like that,' said Christopher. 'How could I? If you were any other woman, I could tell you I loved you, easily enough, but not you-- because you've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes, Kate? To be mad? Or blind?

  Elizabeth Marie Pope

  Love, Eye, Mad

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• There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.

  Avi

  Men, Eyelashes, Ifs

  Avi (2012). “Beyond the Western Sea #1: Escape From Home”, p.117, Scholastic Inc.

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• We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Motivational, Being Yourself

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• Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy odour, like rotting eggs and meat gone bad, crawling blind with maggots. It’s road kill and decayed food and body odour all rolled into one package and tied up with puke.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Dark, Hunting, Eggs

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