Realism Vs Romanticism Quotes

#1. It's about the feeling you get: the road beneath the soles of your feet, the smell in the air. It makes you feel strong, somehow, invincible.

Rowan Coleman

#2. North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

David H. Murdock

#3. M. Zola sits down to give us a picture of the Second Empire. Who cares for the Second Empire now? It is out of date. Life goes faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always in front of Life.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

Dawn Powell

#5. Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text messaging and flirting. There's no weight. When you start getting into relationships, you really start having to consider each other in your lives, and I think that's really important.

Denise Vasi

#6. Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them
are ruinous!

William Dean Howells

#7. I need problems. A good problem makes me come alive.

Tiny Rowland

#8. Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason ... that is its reason for existing.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. 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

#10. From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want.

Caroline Rody

#11. Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

Denis Waitley

#12. He turns back to me, a strong hand swooping down and sculpting hair off my face, familiar looking arms curling back around me and cradling me into a chest harder and hotter than a mountain left baking in the Australian outback.

Poppet

#13. 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

#14. Apocalypse is the lens through which we view international politics because it is the fons et origo of the concept of history and historiography. Were it not for apocalypse, we would not have the categories of mind with which to ask the questions of meaning and adequacy of interpretation. M

Robert Hamerton-Kelly

#15. I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

Barber Conable

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. All trials and challenges has a purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. 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

#20. Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

James Russell Lowell

#21. I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Bette Davis

#22. Religion does not stop adolescents from having sex; it only makes them feel bad about about the sex they do have.

Darrel Ray

#23. The only love that I really believe in is a mother's love for her children.

Karl Lagerfeld