Romanticize Quotes

#1. I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, never, what I expect

Jane Green

#2. When you're watching a documentary, the danger is to romanticize.

Ridley Scott

#3. My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.

Steve Albini

#4. I'm not sure why we romanticize 'young love,' or love in general ... It just leads to the idea that either your love is pure, perfect and eternal, and you are storybook-compatible in every way with no problems, or you're LYING when you say 'I love you.

Randall Munroe

#5. Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

Nguyen Quyen

#6. People romanticize, I think, this notion of life. But life at all costs is not life, it's ego-extension.

Emily Susan Rapp

#7. One does not need to romanticize a task in order to do it well.

Joanna Shupe

#8. Keep going even when the going is slow and uncertain.
Make your dream your prayer and your service.
Don't wait for recognition. Let it find you working.
Romanticize authenticity instead of perfection.

G.G. Renee Hill

#9. To say that God is love is not to romanticize his character or soften his holiness. In fact, the love of God means very little apart from his holiness and justice. The love of God is magnified in that he loves the unholy and pours out blessings upon those deserving just punishment for sin.

Joe Thorn

#10. Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#11. There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

Helen Fisher

#12. I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.

Pat Mora

#13. It's probably unwise to romanticize everything- and I'll probably always do it.

Samantha Ellis

#14. I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'

Zooey Deschanel

#15. I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

Arundhati Roy

#16. I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

Craig Kilborn

#17. To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Novalis

#18. Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

#19. We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

Marlon James

#20. It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Chris Kyle

#21. Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes.

Santosh Kalwar

#22. One of the mistakes women have made is to romanticize life in the rose-covered cottage and then, discovering their error, proceed to romanticize life in the working world.

Juanita M. Kreps

#23. Writing is wonderful. But it's hard work, so don't romanticize too much. Make the blinking cursor do its job.

Joseph LoGuidice

#24. Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

Scott Berkun

#25. It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

David Mamet

#26. There was a tendency by some to romanticize love, to make a fetish out of it. The poets made love seem like a bar of iron coming out of the furnace at the blacksmith's, red hot and staying so forever. Soto did not think much of such notions.

Ken Liu

#27. You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression ...

John Geddes

#28. The death of young musicians isn't something to romanticize

Frances Bean Cobain

#29. It is easy to romanticize the past than it is to anticipate for the unknown.

Catherine B. Alal

#30. Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

Hank Stuever

#31. We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

Greg Boyle

#32. When we are young, we have stars in our eyes. We have dreams. We romanticize the unattainable. Once the dream is attained, everything seems dreary. Once we are There, we realize there is no There. There is now Here. Disillusionment follows. Life is drudgery. Yet it is important to dream.

Jayant Swamy

#33. We have a tendency to romanticize independence. Most business literature still views autonomy as a virtue, as though communication, teamwork, and cooperation were lesser values.

Keith Ferrazzi

#34. We all romanticize the people we adore.

John Green

#35. I've consciously tried not to romanticize anything, especially not intelligence work. I've always said that I've been writing a series of episodic, naturalistic novels. The people just happen to be spies, politicians, civil servants.

Charles McCarry

#36. Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there's a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.

Amy Chua

#37. So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you're always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes.

Joseph Cook

#38. You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

Dan Chaon

#39. Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.

Susan Chira

#40. My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

Jim Gaffigan

#41. We must resist the temptation to romanticize history's losers.

Niall Ferguson

#42. Death wasn't something to romanticize. It was something to stave off, to avoid, to fight as long as possible. Even though she had her battles with melancholy, she never seriously considered suicide. Something in her trusted that there would be an upswing and it would be worth waiting for.

Meredith Marple

#43. The thing about dead people ... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is ... complicated, I guess.

John Green

#44. Nate hated, really hated, being told he thought too much. Jason wasn't the only one who said it: hippie-dippie types who romanticize the natural and the "intuitive" also prefer feeling to thought. But not thinking was a way of giving oneself license to be a dick.

Adelle Waldman

#45. I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.

Brandon Flowers

#46. We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.

Mark Cuban

#47. I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

Allen Ginsberg

#48. I can be nostalgic for the past, and I can romanticize the future, but I cannot sugar coat the here and now. I think that's why I try not to think about it, and I think that's the exact same reason why I need to.

Ellie Rose McKee

#49. People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.

Elise Andrew

#50. We romanticize the past with an illusion that we'd know how we'd fit.

Robin Weigert

#51. For people that don't have any interest in the psychology of nuance, who need everything to be in their face, who don't want to analyze ... those aren't the people I romanticize about dressing.

Marc Jacobs

#52. We not only romanticize the future; we have also made it into a growth industry, a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.

Eugene Kennedy

#53. People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it.

Mira Grant

#54. I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you're suffering a lot, especially in the Bob Marley sense, suffering becomes a kind of university out of which you'll learn some hard lessons.

Fred D'Aguiar

#55. Do not romanticize the poor ... We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

Cesar Chavez

#56. It's typical for some who've been through combat to romanticize it,

J.D. Robb

#57. We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.

Desmond Tutu

#58. Looking back, you can romanticize the things you did back then. I also like talking about the stupid things I've done.

Walter Martin

#59. So many people romanticize writing. And I get it. But I never once wanted to be a writer.

Rory Freedman

#60. In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.

Jose Saramago

#61. When you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.

Immortal Technique

#62. Most girls are dumb. Guys are assholes, but girls tend to romanticize that shit.

Tijan

#63. You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you.

Rick Remender

#64. To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

Aziz Ansari

#65. We have a natural tendency to romanticize breakthrough innovations, imagining momentous ideas transcending their surroundings, a gifted mind somehow seeing over the detritus of old ideas and ossified tradition. But ideas are works of bricolage; they're built out of that detritus.

Steven Johnson

#66. I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Alexander McQueen

#67. You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

Charlie Kaufman

#68. I feel like I have way more resources, way more experience. I'm better. But my fans romanticize the earlier stuff, and I don't think it's just like a nostalgia thing of "He's not as good" - I think it's because that earlier stuff was aggressively marketed as a lifestyle to them.

Talib Kweli

#69. People tend to romanticize this job. So, it's fun to let the air out of it.

Kevin Smith

#70. "Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

Paul Kingsnorth