Samuel Beckett Quotes

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.

America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

None so blind, so deaf, as those that will not hear, that will not see.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.

To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.

None so blind as those who will not see.

Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

We're ostriches and the whole world is sand.

One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

Don't face the facts.