We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't. — Lela Loren Copy Share Image
I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
“insomnia has this romantic way of making the moon feel like perfect company.” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
“Soon he would see war. Jis romanticism and inexperience insulated him from the thought that he might feel it, too.” — Humphrey Cobb Copy Share Image
“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!” — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“We're brought up with a kind of romanticism that's so false it leads us astray. Falling in love and marriage is forever.… — Eric Van Lustbader Copy Share Image
“Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism; but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
“What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
I'm very much inspired by the Latin music, especially the romantic boleros. Not that when I sit to write a play I… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
“Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept… — Jeremy Campbell Copy Share Image
“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The essence of romance is an extremely powerful life-giving sensual force for change. I view the romantic periods in our history as… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
“A friend of mine reports that all the women he's polled have been enthusiastic advocates of the bold romantic gesture, but this,… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
“I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
“There are hundreds of miracles within a single machine. Americans calmly explain these with mathematical formulas. Our difficulty is to learn, theirs… — Warren Eyster Copy Share Image
“I have personally spoken to loved ones on the other side about the process of dying through the song oracle. My Mom… — Ayesha Ophelia Copy Share Image
“Byron’s diabolism, if indeed it deserves the name, was of a mixed type. He shared, to some extent, Shelley’s Promethean attitude, and… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Now the zest of romanticism consists in taking what you know is an independent and ancient world as if it were material… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“… the conjunction of Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece with crucial works or events in the lives of so many other outstanding artists… — Harvey Sachs Copy Share Image
“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What Europe owes to the Jews? - Many things, good and bad, and above all one thing of the nature both of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give… — Leni Riefenstahl Copy Share Image
“When a man, filled with a mixture of reverence and bewilderment, asks, “What on earth does this all mean?”, a child will… — Gustav Mahler Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of… — Alex O'Loughlin Copy Share Image
“Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.” — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
“A woman is at heart – a wild creature. But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)” — Ranata Suzuki Copy Share Image
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image