Best blind & dark Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.”

“I feel more as if I'm shaping something with my hands. I feel as if I've always wanted to get to that state. Like a blind man in a dark room had some clay, what would he make? I end up with 2 or 3 forms on a canvas, but it gets very physical for me.”

Ifs Men Feels Ends States Hands Wanted Form Dark Rooms Blind Canvas Clay Blind Man Dark Room

Author:Philip Guston

“I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.”

Way I Can Dark Sun Gone Future Rain Blind Shining Clouds Obstacles My Way Premonition Dark Clouds

Author:Johnny Nash

“Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind.”

Sometimes Reading Dark Rooms Reflection Window Blind Dark Room Reflection Of Yourself Reading Shakespeare

Author:Antony Sher

“For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things that children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror, therefore, and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of daylight, but by the aspect and law of nature.”

Mind Children Sometimes Light Law Dark Darkness Sun Imagine Aspect Blind Terror Rays Laws Of Nature

Author:Lucretius

“The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.”

Source: The Works of Francis Parkman

“the leading error of the human mind, - the bane of human happiness - the perverter of human virtue ... is Religion - that dark coinage of trembling ignorance! It is Religion - that poisoner of human felicity! It is Religion - that blind guide of human reason! It is Religion - that dethroner of human virtue! which lies at the root of all the evil and all the misery that pervade the world!”

World Mind Humans Reason Lying Evil Dark Virtue Ignorance Roots Blind Misery Errors Guides Human Mind Trembling Felicity Bane Human Happiness Human Reason Poisoners

Author:Frances Wright

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience; but, as blind obedience is ever sought for by power, tyrants and sensualists are in the right when they endeavor to keep women in the dark because, the former only want slaves, and the latter a play-thing.”

Want Mind Ends Play Dark Female Blind Slave Former Obedience Latter Endeavor Tyrants Vindication Blind Obedience Female Mind

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”

Men Belief Black Dark Rooms He Man Cat Blind Philosopher Superstitions Theologian Blind Man Dark Room Black Cat

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.”

Heart Self Lasts Dark Darkness Tears Bears Beats Blind Misery Flesh Wounds Sparks Helpless Weeping Keepers Hunted Hares

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth”

Realizing Dark Sky Blind Clean Clouds Grey Dark Clouds Grey Skies

Author:Shane Koyczan

“Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over to the father, then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home.”

Ifs Littles Two Home Mother Father Hours Dark Feet Baby Months Fit Female Blind Lays Weather Eggs Coming Home Emperor Two Months Having A Baby Penguins Egg Rolls

Author:L. M. Boyd

“A man who can do everything fully consciously becomes a luminous phenomenon. He is all light, and his whole life is full of fragrance and flowers. The mechanical man lives in dark holes, dirty holes. He does not know the world of light; he is like a blind man. The man of watchfulness is really the man who has eyes.”

Knows Men World Doe Whole Light Eye Life Is Can Do Dark He Man Flower Blind Whole Life Holes Dirty Phenomenon Fragrance Luminous Blind Man Watchfulness

Author:Rajneesh

“I am aware of the changes, but in no sense am I believer that we live in a post-racial society. That's a description of our inheritance and that is theirs, which is inescapable. It is doesn't matter if you are from New England or Mississippi. You're an American. It doesn't matter if you are white, black, brown, or Asian. It is part of American society. You'd have to be blind, deaf, or dumb not to know it. The emphasis on color or the fear of it, is all part of the same dark flower. I am trying to point to that and to bring it all the way back from Senegal.”

Trying Black Dark Flower Blind Believer Dumb Deaf

Author:Russell Banks

“Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.”

Men World Stills Fall Black Dark Loss Hundred Rain Crosses Blind Forty Nails Rainy Day Nineteen

Author:Edith Sitwell

“Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.”

“A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul. Q: It always happens? A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind. Q: Instead of watching out? A: Instead of always watching out.”

Ifs Soul Happens Dark Lucky Blind Wander Our Love Finding Love

Book:Metamorphoses: A Play

Source: Metamorphoses: A Play

“A tale is told of twin boys born to different mothers. One is dark by nature, the other light. One is rich, the other poor. One is harsh, the other gentle. One is forever youthful, the other old before his time. One is mortal. They share no bond of blood or sympathy, but they are twins nonetheless. They each live without ever knowing that they are brothers. They each die fighting the blind god.”

Different Light Mother Dies Fighting Born Dark Poor Boys Forever Knowing Rich Blood Share Brother Blind Tales Mortals Gentle Twins Harsh

Book:Blade of Tyshalle

Source: Blade of Tyshalle

“Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”

Dark Blind His Love Juliet Romeo And Juliet Play

Author:William Shakespeare

“In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.”

Knows May Home Light Wanted Dark Walks Car Safe Blind Tired Circles Who I Am Inevitable Confused Wheels Tonight Coming Home Rabbits

Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Ifs World Body Sides Dark Gone Imagine Havens Blind Smell Meat Eggs Hunting Tied Zombie Packages Ripe Dark Side Crawling Rotting Tied Up Puke Maggots

Author:Lilith Saintcrow

“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.”

Knows World Want Enough Action Moving Lying Hours Dark This World Holy Blind Silent Profound Ancient Not Alone Wavering Faltering

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.”

Thinking World Light Might Spiritual Dark Views Blind Spots World View Dark Places Light Of The World

Author:Wayne Dyer

“It's dark out, Jack, the stations out there don't identify themselves, we're in it raw-blind like burned rats, it's running out all around us, the footprints of the beast, one nobody has any notion of. The white and vacant eyes of something above there, something that doesn't know we exist. I smell heartbreak up there, Jack, a heartbreak at the center of things, and in which we don't figure at all.”

Knows Eye Running Dark White Figures Blind Notion Smell Beast Stations Burned Rats Footprint Vacant

Book:We Meet

Source: We Meet

“Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.” “My fears?” “Yes.” “I fear oblivion,” he said without a moment’s pause. “I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” “Too soon,” Isaac said, cracking a smile. “Was that insensitive?” Augustus asked. “I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.”

People Men Said I Can Moments Feelings Dark Groups Share Blind Pauses Oblivion Insensitive Isaac Blind Man Proverbial Augustus Hazel Grace Augustus Waters

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.”

Light Dark Blind

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.”

Littles Facts Eye Can Do Dark Seeing Blind Crave Flare House Of Leaves Magnesium

Author:Mark Z. Danielewski

“We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.”

Way Trying Three Justice Dark Blind Cheese Mice Stumbling Truth And Justice Hunk Glitches Musketeers Three Musketeers

Book:Death and the Girl Next Door

Source: Death and the Girl Next Door

“I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.”

Men Dark Blind Oblivion Blind Man Proverbial Hazel Grace Fault In Our Stars

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”

Humans May Long Joy Turns Sports Dark Knowledge Power Ignorance Conscience Blind Giants Buried Fabric Pillars Knowledge Is Power Scruples Babylon Unbound

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.”

Knows Heart Littles Today Night Turns Realizing Dark Christianity Example Goes On Return Tomorrow Blind Spares Skip Dark Night

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.”

“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.”

Source: The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed

“To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.”

Looks Eye Dark Sun Blind Open Eyes

Book:The spectre of Hegel: early writings

Source: The spectre of Hegel: early writings

“Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to reduce all faith to blind faith and then subject it to ridicule. That provides a very anti-intellectual and convenient way of avoiding intelligent discussion.”

Way Dark Subjects Intellectual Evidence Commitment Opposites Intelligent Blind Discussion Leap Irrational Avoiding Ridicule Convenient Blind Faith

Author:John Lennox

“In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the dark. So faith and reason cooperate on a biblical view of faith. They are not intrinsically hostile.”

Believe Reason Dark Views Blind Scripture Leap Biblical Irrational Hostile True Faith Faith And Reason

Book:Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

Source: Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview

“She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.”

Hands Remember Mother Next Left Dark Sun Cutting Alive Blood Land Baby Blind Committed Bones Naked Salt Burned Snakes Puppy Newborn Katrina Bewildered Newborn Baby Salvage

Book:Salvage the Bones

Source: Salvage the Bones

“Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.”

Dark Poet Blind

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

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