Mary Tyler Moore Quotes

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

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

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 got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.

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.

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

I've started to get iritis, which affects the eyes. But I'm not going to give in.

The surface cells on my eyes don't root back into my eyeball like a normal person's do. Instead, they want to pull off. At night, the surface of my eye was actually adhering to my eyelid. Once that happened, any movement would cause a tear and trigger nearly indescribable pain.

Right foot, left foot, hemorrhage.

I wish I could see outta two eyes.

My first word for the New Year was 'exsanguinate.' This was probably not a good omen.

When your eyes are tired the world is tired also. When your vision has gone no part of the world can find you. Time to go into the dark where the night has eyes to recognize its own. There you can be sure you are not beyond love.

The mole is an animal that digs passages searching for the sun. Sometimes he reaches the surface. When he looks at the sun he goes blind.

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

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

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

Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant and it’s Italian-owned and I don’t want any trouble. But I ended up throwing up all night from food poisoning. All the blood vessels in my eyes were broken, and the blood vessels in my face. I did not sleep. I walked into the audition and the makeup person said, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’ I looked like I was in a car accident.

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.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783