Visual Deprivation Quotes

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Oh, say! what is that thing call'd light, Which I must ne'er enjoy? What are the blessings of the sight? Oh, tell your poor blind boy!

The problem with my eyes is that they have been famished, but now they are feasting.

It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.

I always thought my days spent in darkness [as a child she had cataracts and was unable to see for nearly four years] gave me a very special sensitivity. Much later, when I really wanted to hear, really 'see' a song, I'd close my eyes, and when I wanted to bring it out of the very depths of myself, out of my guts, out of my belly, when the song had to come from far away, I'd close my eyes.

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

The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.