"Living is Easy with Your Eyes Closed."
— John Lennon

"Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are."
— José Saramago (Blindness)

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist."
— Margaret Cho

"blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born."
— José Saramago (Blindness)

"There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes."
— August Strindberg

"We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
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— Ursula K. Le Guin (Gifts)

""One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
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— Helen Keller (The Story of My Life)

""With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.""
— José Saramago

"I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost."
— John Wyndham (The Day of the Triffids)