To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.
Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so.
There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
Life is too short to be miserable.
What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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