Blind Man Quotes

“Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced, as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old, or thereabouts; her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom, but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God, it seemed, had withheld that possibility, as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touched—by genius, by madness, by the Devil, or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever.” (p.33)”
― Tim Willocks, The Religion

“An idea ran backward and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Even a blind man could see she is beautiful.”
― Ken Poirot

“I’m the guy who finds the fucking cat”
― Karl Wiggins, 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again

“A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I think so. Yes. No matter what.”
― Cormac McCarthy

“The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged.
“Is very good.”
― A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green