“You who use the eyes to find love are truly blind.”

“You will never find rest, but pure affection once you fall in love with a woman who truly loves you back.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Love is blind. Friendship closes its eyes.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of blind eyes, tongues of those who cannot talk…”

Keri Hulme book The Bone People

“Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are”

Mark Nepo (1951) American writer

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.”

William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book The Killing Dance