“Pain can give you sight or make you blind.”

“But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.”

“Stoicism will teach you to smile at pain and frown at the sight of too much pleasure.”

“Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.”

“Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.”

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”

“The biggest black eye that you can give the devil is to give God your pain and let Him turn it into gain.”

“Don't look behind
'Cause a tear that never dries
Can only make you blind.”

“Love is blind; but it makes you see the blind man; teetering on the roadside…”

“I who am blind can give one hint to those who see - one admonition to those who would make full use of the gift of sight: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf to-morrow. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides.”