Believe Quote by Joseph Roth

I have seen romanticism outlast the realistic. I have seen men forget the beautiful women they have possessed, forget the prostitutes, and remember the…

— Anais Nin

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

— Jules Verne

What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.

— Anne Bronte

It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic…

— William McFee

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

— Oscar Wilde

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.

— Ann Voskamp

Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme.

— Esther Perel

What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating since the…

— Guillermo del Toro

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

— Anonymous

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

— Charles Baudelaire

“How do you know I'm a romanticist?" Like most romanticists Anwar too prided himself on being a realist.”

— Khwaja Ahmad Abbas

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental…

— Eugene Ionesco