Dante Alighieri Quotes

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us.

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

It's okay if you can't see what you're doing, cuz even when your eyes are open, you can't see what you're doing.

When you can not find someone, it is because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere

Our nature is to desperately want to believe and to take what we believe is the quickest path there even against our better judgment.

When one of us says 'look, there is nothing out there,' what we are really saying is, 'I cannot see'.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

Now that I'm in love, I haven't a clue. Now that I'm in love, I'm completely stupid on the subject.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

Most people ended up, after only a couple of months, so far away from where they'd intended to go, stuck in some barbed underbrush of a quagmire when they'd meant to head straight to the ocean.

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

His suspicion that he was not going in the right direction tortmented him more and more. At last he had the conviction that he would never go anywhere but in the wrong direction, to the very end of the handful of days that was left to him, unhappy moonstruck pilgrim, whose April was to be cut off short.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Life is funny isn’t it? Just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, just when you finally begin to plan something, get excited about something, and feel like you know what direction you’re heading in, the paths change, the signs change, the wind blows the other way, north is suddenly south, and east is west, and you’re lost. It is so easy to lose your way, to lose direction. And that’s with following all the signposts

I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?

Then I glanced at the ring on my finger. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from? I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once—and you all went away. So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light. You aren’t really there at all. There isn’t anybody but me—Jane—here alone in the dark. I miss you dreadfully!

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

I woke with a start. At first I assumed I'd trumped myself awake again.