Romanticism Quotes

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

— Alfred de Musset

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

— Brad Mehldau

“Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart…”

— Orson Scott Card

Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.”

— Ranata Suzuki

“Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.”

— E.M. Forster

Shyness is primitive romanticism.

— Mohammad MUSTAFA

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

— Shulamith Firestone

I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.

— Laura Marling

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

— Arthur Rimbaud

The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

— Mason Cooley

“We thought it was drops of dew and kissed cold tears from the crossgrass.”

— Jónas Hallgrímsson

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

— Anonymous

“Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?”

— Anonymous

“Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and…

— Okakura Kakuzo

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

“A woman is at heart – a wild creature. But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)”

— Ranata Suzuki

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a…

— Christopher Lee

“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“One would be cured for ever of romanticism if one could make up one’s mind, in thinking of the woman one loves,…

— Marcel Proust

“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best; but, when a man has seen the light, this is next best by…

— Sophocles

“There's a certain romanticism that comes with being young. Young men and women just released from high school are ready to take…

— Ryan Smithson

“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and…

— Kakuzo Okakura

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

“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

“Romanticism, which has helped to fill some dull blanks with love and knowledge, had not yet penetrated the times with its leaven…

— George Eliot

“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

“I damned myself for my earlier romanticism. That Croaker who had come north, so thoroughly bemused by the mysterious Lady, was another…

— Glen Cook

“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

“On reflection, falling in love for him was not only extraordinary, but rather comical. By having closely observed Kiyoaki Matsugae, he knew…

— Yukio Mishima

“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

“(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

“During the wars of the Empire while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and…

— David Downie

“If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us fast and draws…

— E.T.A. Hoffmann

Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it…

— Randall Jarrell

“A better-constituted boy would certainly have profited under my intelligent tutors, with their scientific apparatus; and would, doubtless, have found the phenomena…

— Mary Ann Evans

“What ought to be imperfect in time is, because of its very imperfection there, perfect when viewed under the form of eternity.…

— George Santayana