#blindness

...Goddamn himself for letting his independence slip away from him. He didn't even know how it had happened, how he had lost the ability to function on his own, or what the hell he was going to do about it now. ↗

— Kimberly Gardner

#disability #independence #love

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#blindness #beauty

This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. ↗

— Michael Medved

#challenge #continues #dimensions #every #habitual

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not. ↗

— Tertullian

#blindness #combined #easily #kinds #really

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

— Thomas Hardy

#condition #seeing #something #than #worse

It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state A 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 who held me under. ↗

— Florence + the Machine

#florence-and-the-machine #kiss #dreams

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#blindness #blindness-of-man #damnation #damned #faust

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#judgment #truth #judgment

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#blindness #crowds #dark #drew #eyes

I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I'm just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren't fully open yet. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#beginning #blindness #constant #eyes #fully