Quotes About Romantic Literature

#1. And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?
If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

Donna Tartt

#2. Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out.

Paul Murray

#3. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.

Czeslaw Milosz

#4. Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.

John Henry Holland

#5. A key part of successfully being Julia, it seemed, was not giving a shit if you looked weird.

Lev Grossman

#6. Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his nose where he is not wanted?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of the Supernatural, where cool mosses clothe the ruins of Idealism. Let us, in short, indulge in a little fantasy!

Eca De Queiros

#8. There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

Christopher Bollen

#9. Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing

Yuval Noah Harari

#10. My memory, sir, is like a garbage disposal.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. I am home for good like a tiny shoot. The tiny shoots in my mother's garden. I have a passion for idle chatter about books, language and literature. Preparing a meal together, that can be romantic.

Abigail George

#12. If you can't focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?

The Prolific Penman

#13. Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

Lillian Hellman

#14. As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of ... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

Victor Hugo

#15. If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

The Prolific Penman

#16. Breathing becomes really easy when you're laughing. It kick starts that feeling of joy.

Erykah Badu

#17. If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the world must not only be tragic, romantic, and religious, it must be nonsensical also.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#18. Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Theodor Adorno

#19. Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#20. You are a genius beyond description, so start telling yourself that and become aware of who you really are.

Rhonda Byrne

#21. And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

Clarice Lispector

#22. I'm thinking that maybe I'm really far from more than a lot liking you, Mikayla Jones.

Jay McLean

#23. The soul mate doesn't have to
be a romantic relationship.
Sometimes in life, you meet
people when you need them,
and there is an immediate
connection.

Alison G. Bailey

#24. Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Oscar Wilde

#25. What are we doing to each other? Because I know that I am doing to him exactly what he is doing to me. We are sometimes so happy, and never in our lives have we known more unhappiness.

Graham Greene

#26. An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.

Victoria Clayton

#27. I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

Tony Kushner

#28. Healthy competition places discipline on the market and should focus providers on providing the best service at a lower cost.

Julius Genachowski