John M. Hull

“My world has been stripped of its surface. It's only essence now.”

“If it is a gift, it is a gift that one would be glad to give back.”

“Memory is the faculty of coming into the presence of the absent.”

“I'm not a person who can see. I'm a person who is blind. The two are quite different.”

“Blindness is a dark, paradoxical gift.”

“I knew that if I didn't understand blindness, it would destroy me.”

“Rain is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world... It’s a continual patter which tells me about the shape of everything.”

“The challenge of blindness is to be a whole person.”

“To be a person is to be a loving person. That’s the only way to be a person.”

“Human beings are not seeing machines. I can be a complete human being without seeing.”

“I have to learn to live in a world of touch and sound.”

“Consciousness is not an object; it is a stream. It is a process. It is a relationship.”