Quotes about blindness

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King."

Apostolius, Michael on blindness
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"Blindness hatred is blind, as well as love."

Fuller, Thomas on blindness   

"But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?"

Hood, Thomas on blindness   

"There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there."

Hubbard, L. Ron on blindness   

"We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty."

Hugo, Victor on blindness   

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."

Keller, Helen on blindness   

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

Keller, Helen on blindness   

"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable."

Milton, John on blindness   

"O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half."

Milton, John on blindness   

"A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass."

Proverb, English on blindness   

"There's none so blind as they that won't see."

Swift, Jonathan on blindness   

"It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers"

Unknown, Source on blindness   

"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."

Wonder, Stevie on blindness   

"To speak when there is nothing to be said: this is imprudence. To be silent when there is something to be said: this is deception. To speak without paying attention to the expression on the person's face: this is called blindness. "

Milton, John on blindness