Emotional Blindness Quotes

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

I was blinded by being a romantic person.

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.

It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

Love's not only blind but deaf.

A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

Sometimes, when you're close to someone, you miss things. Other people can see them, but you can't.

You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.