Blind Passion Quotes

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

But love is blind and lovers cannot see

For love is a flattering mischief, that hath denied aged and wise men a foresight of those evils that too often prove to be the children of that blind father; a passion, that carries us to commit errors with as much ease as whirlwinds move feathers, and begets in us an unwearied industry to the attainment of what we desire.

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

Too late for changes, too late perhaps for explanations and ideological webs, but the love goes on, the love goes on, blind to laws and warnings and even to wisdom and to fears. And whatever that love is, perhaps an illusion of a new love, I want it, I cant resist it, my whole being melts in one kiss, my knowledge melts, my fears melt, my blood dances, my legs open.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light.

The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.