“He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism.” — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason...that is its reason for existing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We thought it was drops of dew and kissed cold tears from the crossgrass.” — Jónas Hallgrímsson Copy Share Image
“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.” — Scott Farris Copy Share Image
If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on… — Elizabeth Peyton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Stillertook part in the Spanish Civil WarIt is not clear what impelled him to this military gesture. Probably many factors were combined--a… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
“Dipping my bare brush into your garish gold eyes, I draw your dreams close. They dance divinely within, sparking silhouettes alight. (Harboured… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“The truth is, people are ravenous for sex, sociopaths for love. I sometimes like to daydream that if we were all somehow… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
“What the world stigmatises as romantic, is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed; for, if the generous… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“All political ideals, that of making the people happy is perhaps the most dangerous one. It leads invariably to the attempt to… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
“We take this idea of love (being loved, rather than loving) with us into adulthood. Grown up, we hope for a re-creation… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
“It is not self-forgetting and pain-loving antiquarianism nor self-forgetting and intoxicating romanticism which induces us to turn with passionate interest, with unqualified… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
I had been struck by the analogy between neurosis and romanticism. Romanticism was truly a parallel to neurosis. It demanded of reality… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“The very concept of trying to “teach” a lover things feels patronizing, incongruous, and plain sinister. If we truly loved someone, there… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Oliver liked to keep the windows and shutters wide open in the afternoon, with just the swelling sheer curtains between us and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“On reflection, falling in love for him was not only extraordinary, but rather comical. By having closely observed Kiyoaki Matsugae, he knew… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he… — T. E. Hulme Copy Share Image
“(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
