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Blind Man Quotes

In dark ages, people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide, he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind old men as guides.
- Heinrich Heine

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.

- Chinua Achebe

The way Misha tells it, he drove like a blind man, giving the car almost full independence to feel its way along, bumping off things, only giving the wheel a spin with the tips of this fingers when the situation verged on life threatening.
- Nicole Krauss

Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside..
- Martin Amis

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.
- Melina Marchetta

There are those who'd rob a blind man of his eyelashes if they could.
- Avi

Zarathustra, however, answered thus unto him who so spake: When one taketh his hump from the hunchback, then doth one take from him his spiritso do the people teach. And when one giveth the blind man eyes, then doth he see too many bad things on the earth: so that he
curseth him who healed him. He, however, who maketh the lame man run, inflicteth upon him the greatest in him so do the people teach concerning cripples
- Friedrich Nietzsche

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.
- Louis Bayard

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
- Rodney Dangerfield

Whatever is,is in its causes just;
But purblind man
Sees but a part o' th' chain;the nearest link;
His eyes not carrying to that equal beam
That poises all above.
- John Dryden

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes
- William Peter Blatty

A blind man can see how much I love you
- Amy Bloom

Ho! now you strike like the blind man;
t'was the boy that stole your meat,
and you'll beat the post.
- William Shakespeare

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
- Charles Bowen

Next, I'm holding a bag of clothes, being herded toward an open door filled with sunlight. My briefs are still looped around my ankles, so I'm waddling, my erection swinging in front of me like a blind man's cane, and the talent wrangler has the nerve to say, 'Thank you for coming..
- Chuck Palahniuk

I am just another blind man. I do not get the whole picture of what transpires in all places. I am blind and limited. I would be a fool to think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try tobe responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me.
- Jim Butcher

Destroy the traces. I'd never tried to do that. Instead I'd lived in their midst for thirty years, oblivious, a blind man fancying himself invisible.
- Jonathan Lethem

We don't make bicycles anymore. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everyone to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if somebody does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Christ, back in Chicago, we don't make bicycles any more. It's all human relations now. The eggheads sit around trying to figure out new ways for everybody to be happy. Nobody can get fired, no matter what; and if someone does accidentally make a bicycle, the union accuses us of cruel and inhuman practices and the government confiscates the bicycle for back taxes and gives it to a blind man in Afghanistan.
- Kurt Vonnegut

I fear oblivion," he said without a mo-
ment's pause. "I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
- John Green

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.
- John Green

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.
- John Green

Ma'am,' Augustus said, nodding toward her, 'your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.
- John Green

I fear oblivion," he said without a moment's pause. "I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark
- John Green

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had been a blind man's vision. That dream was a miracle. The morning was fading. And I remembered yet again that I was a tourist here.
- Bret Easton Ellis

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
- F Scott Fitzgerald

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.
- Victor Hugo

A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man..
- Victor Hugo

Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King's Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!
- George R R Martin

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper..
- Criss Jami

I'd love to try to sell a blank white canvas to an art dealer. And when he asks what it is, I'd tell him, "It's a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man."
- Jarod Kintz

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
- Pablo Picasso

I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
- Dean Koontz

The irony," he said,"...is that now that I'm this blind man, it's clearer to me now than it's ever been before. What that line? 'Was blind but now I see..
- Wally Lamb

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
- Sol Lewitt

A blind man could see that man would die for you, but that doesn't mean you won't die alongside him.
- Lisa Mantchev

No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.
- Richard Matheson

And then I saw the way he looked at her... like he was a blind man, seeing the sun for the very first time.
- Stephenie Meyer

This meeting was like many of the meetings that I would go to over the course of two years. The only way I can describe it is that, well, the president is like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people. There is no discernible connection.
- Paul Oneill

Only a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the more you feel how ignorant you are.
- Osho

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
- David Seabury

In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time.
- Tupac Shakur

I see, said the blind man.
- Martin C Smith

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet."
"Oh real funny. Tease the blind man.".
- Maria V Snyder

In that world, those with seeing eyes could only blunder about, but the blind man would be at home, and now instead of being the one who was guided by others, he might be one the one to whom the others clung for guidance.
- George R Stewart

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
- Tom Waits

Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.
- P G Wodehouse

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