75 quotes found
“And of the fact that every vision of the past is a vision of the blind”
“Dave once asked me what blind people dream about. Mostly in sound and feeling, I replied. At night I fall in love with a voice, and then wake to a feeling of physical loss. Sometimes I close my eye...”
“It has been my experience that law enforcement reports are littered with fabrications, inaccuracies, omissions, fraud, fantasies and willful blindness.”
“As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.”
“When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from...”
“Imagine walking along a sidewalk with your arms full of groceries, and someone roughly bumps into you so that you fall and your groceries are strewn over the ground. As you rise up from the puddle ...”
“In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.”
“The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human...”
“Don't be afraid of the dark." She tousled his hair tolerantly. "I've never known a man who wasn't scared of more things than I was.”
“It is enough to know, too much to see.”
“There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?”
“The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.”
“I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.”
“All dark and comfortless.”
“It seems that I have been held in some dreaming stateA tourist in the waking world world, never quite awake.No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber,Until I realised that it was you ...”
“The poets have taught us how full of wonders is the night; and the night of blindness has its wonders, too. The only lightless dark is the night of ignorance and insensibility. We differ, blind and...”
“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
“Annie looks dreamy, but she always does because she cant see farther than three feet away. Elizabeth looks vaguely angry, but she always does because she can see farther than three feet away.”
“It must be hard for people who only knew darkness not to be blinded by the light”
“Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you.”
