Blinded Quotes - Page 2

• Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

  Lady Gaga

  Love Yourself, People, Self Love

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• Darling girl, blinded by foolish thoughts of love. How to tell her that the hearts of men were not so easily won. If won, rarely kept.

  Kate Morton

  Girl, Heart, Men

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.445, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman whom Thou gavest me hast deceived me." This very same thing I myself now suffer, wretched and miserable, when I do not desire to be humbled, and to say with my whole soul that I myself am guilty of my perdition. But on the contrary I say: "That person over there inspired me to do or say this. He advised me and knocked me off the path." Woe is my poor soul which speaks such words filled with sin! O most shameless and irrational words of a shameless and irrational soul!

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Humility, Soul, Suffering

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

  John Calvin

  Poverty, Prosperity, Dangerous

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 33- 48”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

  Oscar Wilde

  Eye, Land, Safety

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.62, Wordsworth Editions

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• To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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• Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Long Ago, Order, Buttons

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 10, 2012

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• Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Morning, Sun, Spots

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “The Awakening”, p.152, Penguin Group

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• I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

  Gustav Mahler

  Crazy, Passion, Men

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• Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Sight

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• Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Omnipotent, Omniscient

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.322, Dell

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• I'm sitting her thinking, -God, I swear I will take a vow of silence and move to a monastery and worship you for all my days if you just this once provide me with an invisibility cloak, come on, come on, please please invisibility cloak now now now-. It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment.

  John Green

  Moving, Thinking, Invisibility Cloak

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• Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

  Holly Black

  Mistake, Thinking, Kind

  Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• Oh, the humanity.... It was a wonder Rhage hadn't blinded himself with all that pop culture.

  J.R. Ward

  Humanity, Culture, Wonder

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.882, Penguin

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• At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse— at least, blinded by the light, young love is. But we are older, I to love and you to be loved, we have, no matter how, by our wills survived to keep the jeweled prize always at our finger tips. We will it so and so it is past all accident.

  William Carlos Williams

  Love, Sorry, Selfish

  William Carlos Williams, Charles Tomlinson (1985). “Selected Poems”, p.215, New Directions Publishing

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• Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Decision, Parent

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason. ...And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Love, Romantic, Valentines Day

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• Blinded following the Blindfolded

  Daniel Handler

  Following, Blindfolded

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• Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Eye, Simple

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

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• Both sides so blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see they were all fighting for the same thing.

  Brom

  Hate, Fighting, Sides

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• She wanted him to see all of her and also none of her. She wanted him to be dazzled by the bits and blinded by the whole. She wanted him to see her whole and not in pieces. She had hopes that were hard to satisfy.

  Ann Brashares

  Love, Pieces, Wanted

  Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.9, Penguin

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• Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

  Debbie Macomber

  Loss, Our World, Order

  Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels”, p.315, MIRA

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• I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

  Arthur Golden

  Beautiful, Men, Long

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.225, Random House

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• Am I blind?" Will's voice floated out of the darkness, tinged with annoyance. "I'm not going to be at all pleased if you've blinded me, Henry.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, Darkness, Blind

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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