Romantics Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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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
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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
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Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.
— Douglas Rushkoff
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All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.
— Richard Kadrey
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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
— William Goldman
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All romantics meet the same fate some day. Drunk and cynical and boring someone in some dark cafe.
— Joni Mitchell
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The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
— Jon Krakauer
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We''re all misfits here,†he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all.  For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere…
— Terri Windling
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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
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The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred.
— Ann Voskamp
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The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
— Ann Voskamp
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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
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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
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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
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There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving
— Lesley Blanch
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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
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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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