Quotes About Romanticism

#1. The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Louis Simpson

#2. If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.

Gary L. Thomas

#4. There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Frank Borman

#5. What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous ideas of youth are too often over-clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false.

Anne Bronte

#6. Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career - no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#7. Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking.

Ronda Rousey

#8. I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Anais Nin

#9. The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#10. If you are my flower and I your water,
you'll be with me always watered

Miguel El Portugues

#11. When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

Victoria Moran

#12. Writing this, I'm reminded that until I was quite old I too adhered to the romantic cult of madness. I got over it, thank God. Experience has taught me that this particular form of romanticism is pure stupidity, and that madness is the saddest, most dismal thing on earth.

Emmanuel Carrere

#13. Romanticism demands mastery of the primary element of fiction: the art of storytelling - which requires three cardinal qualities: ingenuity, imagination, a sense of drama.

Ayn Rand

#14. I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals.

Emile Zola

#15. But now he was married and had children, and even though he still had the boat the aura of island romanticism had gone. The long hair too.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#16. Love is a two-way street constantly under construction.

Carroll Bryant

#17. National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism.

Victor Klemperer

#18. Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither; I am instead a Romantic.

Kenzie Western

#19. Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over ... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.

Cyril Connolly

#20. I don't know where my romanticism comes from. My mom and dad would read to me a lot. 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe,' tales of chivalry and knights, things like that. Those are the stories I loved growing up.

Daniel Radcliffe

#21. Boyishness - by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.

Thomas Hughes

#22. Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

E. M. Forster

#24. The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

Rene Girard

#25. Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdy
common sense of a burgher-class in the making.

Hope Mirrlees

#26. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Harold Bloom

#27. Both the 18th and the early 20th centuries, however, feature brilliant attacks on originality, and it's no doubt one of the hallmarks of romanticism to care about originality and suppose with a sometimes naive spontaneity that it's all that matters.

Paul Fry

#28. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

Oscar Wilde

#29. Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

Viktor Yanukovych

#30. At this moment, as I stood on the verge of tears, the words "realism" and "romanticism" welled up within me. I have no sense of realism. And that this very fact might be what permits me to go on living sends cold chills through my whole body.

Osamu Dazai

#31. She'll come, if not today, then tomorrow, but she'll find me. That's the cursed romanticism of all these pure hearts! Oh the vileness, oh the stupidity, oh the narrowness, of these rotten, sentimental souls

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#32. The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

Oscar Wilde

#33. Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again

Giacomo Leopardi

#34. Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Federico Fellini

#35. The belle is a product of the Deep South, which is a product of the nineteenth century and the Age of Romanticism. Virginia is a product of the eighteenth century. It's impossible to extract a belle from the Age of Reason.

Florence King

#36. History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Pietros Maneos

#37. She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky.

Nenia Campbell

#38. You're more like dun-dun-na-NAH Romantic Man whose superpower is hopeless romanticism. Your bat signal would be a big red heart over Gotham.

Violet Duke

#39. We thought it was drops
of dew and kissed
cold tears from the crossgrass.

Jonas Hallgrimsson

#40. Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

#41. I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an attraction to, this period, and some of my pictures are a homage to Caspar David Friedrich.

Gerhard Richter

#42. At the heart of all romanticism is suffering

Brin-Jonathan Butler

#43. It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art.

Ivan Turgenev

#44. Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

Camille Paglia

#45. Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Alfred De Musset

#46. Fall in love
with the energy
of the mornings

trace your fingers
along the lull
of the afternoons

take the spirit
of the evenings
in your arms
kiss it deeply

and then
make love
to the tranquility
of the nights.

Sanober Khan

#47. My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

Tamra Davis

#48. Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Brad Mehldau

#49. Two people can remain "in love"
a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism
only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God.

Flannery O'Connor

#50. Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

George R R Martin

#51. The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.

Max Gallo

#52. To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Charles Baudelaire

#53. I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Luke Rhinehart

#54. Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

T. E. Hulme

#55. Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

Olivia Wilde

#56. In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#57. We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.

The School Of Life

#58. Once thought is pulled up short by a yearning that can only be known existentially, it is inevitable that conceptual discourse should give way to the birth of literature ...

Terry Eagleton

#59. What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#60. Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.

Thomas Mann

#61. For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

#62. For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#63. I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might entail privation and suffering.

Iain M. Banks

#64. 'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

Christopher Lee

#65. Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them

Hermann Broch

#66. I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.

Laini Taylor

#67. I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality an illusory world, love, an absolute which it could never obtain, and thus destroyed itself by the dream.

Anais Nin

#68. There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

John McCain

#69. Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

Charles A. Murray

#70. Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.

John Maxwell Hamilton

#71. You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person ... What America offers me is romanticism and hope ... Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

Bharati Mukherjee

#72. My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness.

Diana Athill

#73. The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

Camille Paglia

#74. Miracles don't exist. There is cause and effect, dreams and reality. Living and Dead. Your hope is absurd. Your romanticism, embarrassing

Isaac Marion

#75. On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never.

Deepak Rana

#76. Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#77. You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

#78. Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ...

Orson Scott Card

#79. I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Bill Nighy

#80. I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another man. A stripling, filled with the foolish ignorances of youth. Yeah. Sometimes you lie to yourself just to keep going.

Glen Cook

#81. Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

George Edward Woodberry

#82. We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever. The movies, then TV told us that, even - especially - the commercials.

Eric Van Lustbader

#83. It is thus the adventure of poetry, not the closure of philosophy, that most truly reflects the human condition.

Terry Eagleton

#84. What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme
to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

Stefan Zweig

#85. There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.

Rae Hachton

#86. Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

Edward Abbey

#87. As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.

Scott Farris

#88. I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the first woman they idolized, the woman they could never have. The woman who aroused them romantically holds them.

Anais Nin

#89. The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs.

Richard Brookhiser

#90. High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

Camille Paglia

#91. It was not so much rebellion that fueled the German youth movement (as it did in the American youth movement of the 1960s); rather, it was romanticism.

Andrew Root

#92. The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.

David Almond

#93. Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can.

Yuval Noah Harari

#94. Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.

Emily Browning

#95. Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

Samuel Hopkins Adams

#96. Negative Capacity, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.

Hyder Edward Rollins

#97. In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a new story, a new poetry, a new romanticism.

Philippe Starck

#98. Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.

Nicholas Sparks

#99. Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

Elizabeth Peyton

#100. Philosophically, Romanticism is a crusade to glorify man's existence; psychologically, it is experienced simply as the desire to make life interesting.

Ayn Rand