Everything is just very, very blurry. I've never had proper vision.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
The nice thing about Viagra is that they are proving men can go blind on it, so you can gain weight and have a great sex life.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
What happens is that the system builds many inferior blood vessels in the eye to take the place of the vessels that are dying. And those blood vessels are not up to the task. And they bleed. They hemorrhage and they cover the eye inside with blood.
I played football for Leeds United under-18s, but at 17 my eyes started to go and I had to wear glasses. The football had to go - there were no contact lenses in 1957.
When I lost the sight of my eye and faced the prospect of going blind, my sight was saved by the NHS.
Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.
If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.
Holding a menu at arm's length, peering at anything that required reading, made me feel so old.
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.
We always think, 'Well, for a person who's blind, it must be an amazing, joyful miracle if by some chance their sight is restored to them.' Now, this may be true for blind people who lost their vision at a later age. It's rarely true for people who were born blind or who go blind at a very young age.
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.
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.
So long as you've got one good eye, the other one is just back-up.
blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
The accident did not change my life, change the way I think, the way I work. For sure, it gave me even more experience. The biggest problem was my sight, I couldn't see with my left eye.
Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.
Light means nothing to a blind man.
What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.
There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.
POZZO: I am blind. (Silence.) ESTRAGON: Perhaps he can see into the future.
