Meaning of love is blind (what is it, concept and definition)

What is Love is blind:

"Love is blind" is one of the most used expressions to refer to the irrational way of acting when you are in love.

The expression "love is blind" originally referred to the magic of love and blindness of those involved who weighed emotionality and passion over rationality. Today, despite still having sometimes positive connotations, it is generally associated with a criticism of acts of love that denote irrationality.

Love is blind and madness goes with it

It is a popular story that has given the expression "love is blind" a surname for Spanish speakers, associating love together with madness.

It is said that in a gathering of feelings, madness invites everyone to play hide and seek. When only love was missing, insanity glimpsed him behind a rose bush and inadvertently buried the thorns in love's eyes, leaving him blind. Insanity, feeling responsible, promised since then to accompany love forever. And this is how the expression "love is blind and madness always accompanies it" is born.

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Some phrases about "Love is blind"

• "Love, as blind as it is, prevents lovers from seeing the funny nonsense they commit." William Shakespeare: "The secret of happiness in love consists less in being blind than in closing your eyes when necessary." Simone Beauvoir. "It is not love that must be represented as blind, but self-love." Voltaire "Love is called the game in which a pair of blind people play to hurt themselves." Joaquín Sabina

Origin of the phrase "Love is blind"

The phrase "love is blind" was popularized in 1596 in the works of the English playwright William Shakespeare.

The phrase first appears in 1405 in an English short story called " Chaucer Merchant's Tale " or "The Merchant Chaucer's Story."