Aubrey de Grey Quotes

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.

I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.

I have better peripheral vision in my left. It is quite hard to remain optimistic, but I have found the Macular Society, of whom I've been an enthusiastic supporter for nine years, tremendously helpful in providing support.

I'm blind without my glasses.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

The subject we talk of is the eye of England: if there be a speck or two in the eye, we endeavor to take them off; he would be a strange oculist, who should pull out the eye.”

When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.

My eyesight had always been good but at school I went swimming one day and the chlorine affected me badly. I was almost blinded for two weeks and from there things deteriorated. Then at the World Championship in 2007 I realised I couldn't see the back of the pocket. It was one big blur. My first two seasons as a pro it was dreadful.

If you close one eye and imagine a bright light constantly in front of the other eye, your vision is compromised. You can only see about 30 percent of what you should be able to see.

You understand what your eyes mean to you, but it's different when you have to go through something like I did, where it's a possibility you could have lost your eyesight. It puts things back into perspective for you and humbles you a little bit.

My eyes are never going to be perfect.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

No, I call. Come back. I'm here, he says. But I can't see. It's too bright. You can't hold back the light, Gemma. I'm here. Trust me.