Blinded Quote by William Butler Yeats

“The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?”

— Paul Russell

“Life was often so cruel, so ugly. And then, in the midst of all the madness, a precious gift would be placed in your…

— Wendy Higgins Sweet Reckoning

“Once I had feared that telling the truth would be like falling, that love would be like hitting the ground, but here I was,…

— Rachel Hartman

“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”

— Aeschylus

“For at moments such is the blindness and folly, yet withal the redeeming glory of love.”

— Radclyffe Hall

“It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold…

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

“I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people…

— Boris Pasternak

“When first I saw it moving across the waves I readied myself, stood steadfast, armed for the battle ahead. But then as she stood…

— Casey Hill

“There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.”

— cate tiernan

“Its beauty stirs the imagination, and I wonder if the last refuge of all that is truly wild lies not on earth but in…

— Ellen Meloy

“Beauty is not only a terrible thing, it is also a mysterious thing. There God and the Devil strive for mastery, and the battleground…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“She is staring at me wide-eyed, willing me to understand: that people should be sacrificed to causes, that beauty can be built on the…

— Lauren Oliver