Romantics Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve… — Mark Rothko
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the… — Jeanette Winterson
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. — Douglas Rushkoff
All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out. — Richard Kadrey
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. — William Goldman
All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe. — Joni Mitchell
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind itâ€™s a little bit of both, and… — Nicholas Sparks
The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality. — Jon Krakauer
We''re all misfits here,â€ he says, almost proudly. â€œThat's why I started this squat, after all. Â For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere… — Terri Windling
Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see… — David Levithan
The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. — Ann Voskamp
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. — Ann Voskamp
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn… — Ellen Willis
If people connect me with the Romantics in general, they probably connect me most with Keats. But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all… — Andrew Motion
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and… — Daniel H. Wilson
There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving — Lesley Blanch
They call us romantics, weak, stupid, sentimental idealists, perhaps because we have some faith in the good which exists even in our opponents and because… — Ash Sweeney
Sometimes the heart wants to speak volumes when only a few, well chosen words are really necessary. Love quotes come from the great poets of… — Charyll Gatela

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