"Love and hatred are not blind, but..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.
More by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---”
“Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.”
“But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them.”
More on Emotion
“I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.”
“It is impossible to love a second time what we have really ceased to love.”
“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.”
More on Love
“The sight of lovers feedeth those in love.”
“I love you, Gabby, more than you'll ever know. You're everything I've ever wanted in a wife. You're every hope and every dream I've ever had, and you've made me happier than any man could possibly be. I don't ever want to give that up. I can't.”
“Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”