Top 100 Blinded By Quotes
#1. I should have known. You were always so good to me. I was blinded by my love for you.
Kahlen Aymes
#2. What are you?
I opened my eyes gingerly. The flashlight that had blinded me was lying a few feet from my head now, which gave me just enough light to see what appeared to be a twelve-year-old girl sitting on my chest.
I'd gotten my butt handed to me by a sixth grader? That was embarrassing.
Rachel Hawkins
#3. Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
Leonid Andreyev
#4. Politicians show no signs of even knowing the difference between negative and positive rights. Blinded by the dazzle of anything that makes them popular, they honestly may not be able to tell.
P. J. O'Rourke
#5. But the greatest wisdom could be blinded by the glare of vanity.
Paulo Coelho
#6. Some people are blinded by their experience. Soldiers know how important war is. Owners of slaves learn every day how inferior subject peoples are.
William Stafford
#7. When the preacher says it's for better or worse, you're so blinded by the possibility of better you fail to see the reality of worse.
Bette Lee Crosby
#8. I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.
Steven Wright
#9. If the shining sun blinds the eye,it makes sense. But to be blinded by gold and silver!
I.R. Shankar
#10. When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.
Helena Rubinstein
#12. It seemed to me that I, the spirit of so many worlds, the flower of so many ages, was the Church Cosmical, fit at last to be the bride of God. But instead I was blinded and seared and struck down by terrible light.
Olaf Stapledon
#13. Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
Ezra Pound
#14. The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.
Karl Barth
#15. The powerlessness of people with pure intentions, in the long run, can sometimes be more powerful than power in the hands of those blinded or depraved by evil tempers.
Widad Akreyi
#16. I cannot count the days on which I found myself driving abruptly blinded by tears.
Joan Didion
#17. But the truth of the matter - as I've come to understand it - is that people will ignore every warning sign when blinded by their thirst for something. It's better to not be thirsty.
Tarryn Fisher
#18. Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
Susan Cooper
#19. Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#20. I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
Gustav Mahler
#21. Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.
Sylvia Plath
#22. I have been blinded, as many of us have been blinded by our needs. I had thought of only my family
this was the limit to my responsibility, and therefore, my vision.
-Istak
F. Sionil Jose
#23. A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don't want to see
Terry Tempest Williams
#24. - ' That's nonsense young one,
Your dreams are not very logical '
- ' The only non-sense I see here,
is a living a life; blinded,
By all that could have taken your breath away.
Nikki Rowe
#25. Don't let yourself be blinded by your rage in quarrels, that will only lead to mistakes and death, and remember that bravery is worth nothing if it's not matched by intelligence.
Anonymous
#26. I figured the guy was completely blinded by the rich world that deliberately shows us poor Africans a "paradise" we cannot enter, though he had a point.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi
#27. Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.
Hannah Hurnard
#28. The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics.
Sam Harris
#29. It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy being swallowed up by him. I was distracted from everything, blinded by lust and drowning in his intensity. He completely consumed me.
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#30. For a moment, half blinded by dirt, I couldn't see Jamie at all. Then I spotted him. He was under the bear, one arm locked around its neck, his head tucked into the joint of the shoulder just under the drooling jaws.
Diana Gabaldon
#31. What I cannot touch, remains a memory. I am blinded by an imagined light. A remembrance of what can never be.
Ayushee Ghoshal
#32. With all those stars in the sky, why isn't there enough light for us to see by? We stumble like blinded sheep.'
'As you can see, it is clouding over. The stars can't pierce the gloom; they just wait it out. That isn't the stars fault. It is their custom to stay heavenly.
Gregory Maguire
#33. We are all blinded by deceit of what society or family tells us is right. Some of us choose to break free.
Tami Egonu
#34. I may have loved to read my romance and smut novels, but I was not blinded by the 'fiction' part of it all. I knew the difference between what was real and what came from a hopeless romantic's imagination.
Christine Zolendz
#35. And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed ... p146
Radclyffe Hall
#36. Here, in my dreams, we love whom we love,
blinded not by the color of their skin,
worried not by the details of their gender,
nor about the book in which they find their god.
Sarah Tregay
#37. Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
Jodi Picoult
#38. I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.
Peter Beard
#39. Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.
Plutarch
#40. People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.
Arundhati Roy
#41. We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.
Tom Brokaw
#42. They will not be swayed, they have power in their sights and are blinded by its alluring glister.
A.H. Septimius
#43. She is not the princess locked away in the fortress and you are not some hero who's going to save her.
Heather Anastasiu
#44. A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.
Andrew Solomon
#45. Better to be blinded by love than hate; one forgives and the other refuses.
T.F. Hodge
#46. We are all blinded by our beliefs. Only respectful debate can bring us closer to the greater truth.
Jim Steele
#47. Why with our emphasis on the individual are we still so blinded by the urge to conform?
Lily King
#48. Don't give me truth, just give me gossip
And skeletons from people's closets,
I wanna be normal
And millions buy it,
I am blinded by The SUN.
Benjamin Zephaniah
#49. Her smile turned wicked. "And I'm not a silly girl to be blinded by a tidy posterior and expansive landholdings."
Tidy posterior and expansive landholdings? Was that the Dark Ages equivalent of a tight ass and a lot of money?
Kim Harrison
#50. A saccharine, sentimental drip ran down my throat, and I was blinded by how stupid I had been not to see that everything was absolutely, one hundred percent going to be okay.
Stephanie Danler
#51. I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.
Judd Apatow
#52. And when he beheld their dark sails, smutted by the burning tar that had blinded their enemy, he believed them blackened in mourning for the young man, and he threw himself down, and so perished. For no man lives long when his dreams are dead.
Gene Wolfe
#53. The truth is easy to see, but hard to look at when you are blinded by the demands that your body and soul make of you.
S. Vagus
#54. There is a great force in renunciation of power that those who are blinded by the lust for domination cannot understand because those who truly love do not desire power.
Alison Croggon
#55. Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality.
Amit Abraham
#56. Though being freed from sin, most remain slaves, blinded and gagged by their own deception.
Ted Dekker
#57. During the day it is hard to remember that all the stars in the sky are out there all the time, even when I am too blinded by the sum to see them
Barbara Brown Taylor
#58. I took a deep breath and said: "I fell in love with a vampire."
And like that, I was blinded by light.
Richelle Mead
#59. Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.
Jessica Sorensen
#61. Second-guess [myself]? Yes, I do. I question everything I do every step of the way. Once I make the decision I'm almost blinded by believing in it, and then I usually hate everything I've done.
Tom Ford
#62. Noah had transformed in my eyes, too, but it wasn't because he had changed. It was my perception of him that had changed. He'd always been the cool person I'd come to know and respect, I'd just been blinded by my prejudices.
Lee Strauss
#63. Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.
Edmund Burke
#64. Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.
Bruno Schulz
#65. Every morning is bright, beautiful, and gorgeous like the sun, but we can't see it because we are blinded by day to day tasks.
Debasish Mridha
#66. The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us.
Dan Ariely
#67. The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.
Billy Graham
#68. I was bit by a dog when I was two years old, and it almost mauled my face. It almost killed and/or blinded me. I was this close to dying at two, which is terrible. I survived it, and there was no head trauma or anything like that. Honestly, it was a miracle.
Charlie Puth
#69. We are blinded by our ability to see without sight we could see things we can't here
Archibald Gumiro
#70. Keep your eyes and your mind open. Don't be blinded by filters like fear, uncertainty, pessimism and negativity.
Carlos Wallace
#71. I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
Paullina Simons
#72. Adversity is what illuminates quagmires, but all that really matters is destiny.We cannot be blinded by present circumstances which roar like Goliath and sent shivers down the spine. That's not what destiny holds, remember; mercy spurned is demise embraced.
Trinity Tinashe Masunungure
#73. Cono felt embarrassed by the thought that he might have been just another pitiful orphan trying to turn his friends into family, and that he might be blinded by this need, a need that colored his whole life, that ache to offer worth to someone.
Victor Robert Lee
#74. Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life-all this because they happen to have been good killers.
Frank Press
#75. I, who was empty ... I made myself believe that I could only fill it.. by falling in love ... at that time to me.. in this world around you, Nana ... Everything was so shiny that I was blinded. That doesn't mean that anyone would suit me ... I just wanted to be in the same light as you.
Ai Yazawa
#76. Do not allow yourself to be blinded by fear and anger. Everything is only as it is.
Yuki Urushibara
#77. It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
Douglas Adams
#78. Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
Tariq Ramadan
#79. If not so tragic, it would be laughable. Both sides os blinded by their fear and hate of each other that they couldn't see that they were all fighting for the same thing- for the men to leave this island. Insanity!
Brom
#80. The sensation burst over her, flames and sparks, stars, and all that was holy. She clung to him, blinded by the sun above her, feeling like the light had entered her veins to sing through her book, lift her high above the earth.
Lecia Cornwall
#81. I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.
Arthur Golden
#82. Say that i starved, that i was lost and weary
that i was burned and blinded by the desert sun
footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases,
lonely and wet and cold, but that i kept my dream!
Everett Ruess
#83. I really knew nothing about her, blinded as I was by that burning loveliness which replaces everything else and justifies everything
Vladimir Nabokov
#84. You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.
Andrew Mason
#85. Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.
Debbie Macomber
#86. We must now allow ourselves to be blinded to long-term developments by the intensity of the short-term difficulties.
Stafford Cripps
#87. There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose.
Jared Matthew Kessler
#88. Only the foolish, blinded by language's conventions, think of fire as red or gold. Fire is blue at it's melancholy rim, green in it's envious heart. It may burn white, or even, in it's greatest rages, black.
Salman Rushdie
#89. Spend in pure converse our eternal day;
Think each in each, immediately wise;
Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say
What this tumultuous body now denies;
And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;
And see, no longer blinded by our eyes.
Rupert Brooke
#90. Life without love, without chasing your dreams, is nothing. It means nothing. It's a sad fucking empty shell, Catherine. It's so easy to drown in darkness, to let it smother you, swallow you whole, to be blinded by it. But you gotta fight. You gotta fucking fight.
Mia Asher
#91. Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Aaron Swartz
#92. Those who travel the world hoping to get "blinded by the light" are often blind to the light that's all around them.
Rolf Potts
#93. Often, one can be in love with who they think someone is, while being blinded by their own desires. And just as often, instead of being in love with a lover, one is in love with love.
Mercedes Lackey
#94. Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see.
Karen Marie Moning
#95. Most of your innovation is hiding in plain sight, you are institutionally blinded by your legacy systems and culture.
K. Melissa Kennedy
#97. If what you believe doesn't depend om what you see, you've been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#98. The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of a stunt pilot's turning barrel rolls, or an inchworm's blind rearing from a stem in search of a route. At its worst, it feels like alligator wrestling, at the level of the sentence.
Annie Dillard
#99. Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science.
Harry Gordon Johnson
#100. Ego is this this higher conscious concept that we have of ourselves and we feel that we must live by it with a closed mind. We can be Self Aware of this concept or purely just blinded. I think the answer to this problem is being Self Aware and changing our current perception for the better.
Matthew Donnelly
