Romanticise Quotes

#1. It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John Le Carre

#2. The romantics really did want to romanticise the world itself, and that meant re-creating the state, society and even nature so that it became a work of art.

Frederick C. Beiser

#3. Don't romanticise your 'vocation'. You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle'. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Zadie Smith

#4. I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than the perverse immediate gratification.

John Maus

#5. There's some of Romeo's romance in me ... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind..

Leonardo DiCaprio

#6. People tend to romanticise consciousness, as if it's something spiritual. It's just a word we use to describe complexity.

David Walton

#7. I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

Taylor Swift

#8. It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

Tony Abbott

#9. I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider.

Peter Doig

#10. I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.

Warsan Shire

#11. I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.

Patrick Grant

#12. It is easy to romanticise, say, tigers or lions and cats. We admire their magnificent beauty, strength and agility. But we would regard their notional human counterparts as wanton psychopaths of the worst kind.

David Pearce

#13. Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

Dalai Lama

#14. at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had a crusader stick a sword in his or her chest.

P.Z. Myers

#15. Hate is love looking for itself everyplace but where love is.

Jane Roberts

#16. The can take everything you own- your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.

Yasmina Khadra

#17. To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

Lysander Spooner

#18. In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Herbert M. Shelton