Rosemary Mahoney Quotes

When sighted people cover their eyes or find themselves in a dark place, this is something that's very terrifying for us. And so in general, we assume that this is what blindness means. But of course, it isn't. For people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age, that's not at all what blindness means.

Being blind is as simple as closing your eyes. The blind don't act any different than you or I. You never see a blind person going around saying, 'I'm blind.' So if you want to play blind just close your eyes and keep them closed and fare thee well.

I'm blind without my glasses.

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.

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

Blind yourself, for I am blind.

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

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

I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.

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

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

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

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.

I've been blind in my mind since the age of three.

Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

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.

I'm comfortable not using my vision.

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 can't be a human without seeing.

Gazzy called over to me "I can't see anything!" "I can't see anything either," Iggy complained. "I'm rolling my eyes, Ig." I had to tell him that because he couldn't see me do it, what with his blindness and all.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

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