Blindfold Quotes

“Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could.
"Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked.
"I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me."
"Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.”
― Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society

“How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?”
― Melinda Cross

“I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted.”
― Stephen M. Irwin, The Dead Path

“I’ve finally given in, my eyes are shut under the blindfold. I can hear and smell, but I cannot see. My hands are clammy I feel cold yet I am warm. It is what I wanted, but I am now unsure, dubious yet at the same time excited and curious. I would like to think I feel a bit like Alice just before she fell down the hole into the rabbit hole. Yet there are no rabbits here… not even those of the rampant persuasion.”
― Leonora Morrison

“It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“This time his voice comes from the left and I hear his footfall moving around my body as I obey. Suddenly I am all limbs, stretching out to please him. I am absurdly vulnerable and beyond aroused. I want him now.”
― Felicity Brandon, Corrupted Desires

“We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, to someone else. But as Mr. Erskine also pointed out, Eros with his bow and arrows is not the only blind god. Justitia is the other one. Clumsy blind gods with edged weapons: Justicia totes a sword, which, coupled with her blindfold, is a pretty good recipe for cutting yourself.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color – and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state of Clio, the Muse of history, she would have to be presented with the blindfold lying at her feet, because the balance of her scales must be weighed with a conscious awareness of the facts and interpretations she must weigh.”
― Leonard J. Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses

“Our agenda is the lens through which we view the world that is in reality a blindfold through which we miss the world.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He reads on: 'In every corner of this community, somebody is attempting something new. For this, they've had their share of tragedies.'

Tom nods. Of course they have. They had to have. That's how invention works. Failures are guaranteed.

Doesn't Malorie understand that? Doesn't she get that you can wear a blindfold your entire life, but all you're doing is perpetuating the lie that you cannot see?”
― Josh Malerman, Malorie

“The seer is feared and alienated for seeing too much. And, seeing and knowing too much is deemed a punishable crime in a society where the masses are comfortable in their blindfold.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson , The Oneironaut’s Diary

“Don’t let religion blindfold you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The darkness of ignorance, blindfold us.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The best work is always progressive and result-oriented, work done to please other people is like a ritual - free of self-analysis or result-orientation, the approach becomes rigid due to a fear of negative results, we blindfold ourselves so much that thinking and innovation despite being so close becomes invisible.”
― Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

“He slipped off her clothes and covered her eyes with one hand, a blindfold of naivete she wore willingly, relishing his embrace like an idiot inmate who mistakes a straitjacket for a snuggie.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“That was what the agencies wanted: to mask everyone, to blindfold and brainwash them until habit became the new truth. Yes, rebels suffered. They were abused, wounded, locked up, and killed. Their families were broken apart like shattered clocks that could no longer tell time. History had a way of finger-painting every revolution with blood. Yet to what end would blind obedience lead? What was the purpose of blinding them all?

Lexi's hand reached up and stroked Dominic's face. Beneath his scruff, above the webbing of nerves and veins, she thought for a moment that her fingers brushed against a string. "You put it on and take it off, my love," she whispered. "Until one day that mask might not come off. What then?"

He shoved her away and switched off the light.”
― Angela Panayotopulos

“Grover pulled a blindfold out of his pocket and suggested Pin the Tail on the Human, which made me kind of nervous since I was the only human.”
― Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo

“The only time for blind patriotism is when standing blindfolded before a firing squad.”
― Stewart Stafford