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Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. — Thomas Mann

If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us. — Evan Meekins

Miracles don't exist. There is cause and effect, dreams and reality. Living and Dead. Your hope is absurd. Your romanticism, embarrassing — Isaac Marion

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Life is not a song, sweetling.
Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow. — George R R Martin

My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor possessiveness. — Diana Athill

Love is a two-way street constantly under construction. — Carroll Bryant

It's all romanticism, nonsense, rottenness, art. — Ivan Turgenev

Romanticism is beauty without bounds-the beautiful infinite. — Jean Paul

At the heart of all romanticism is suffering — Brin-Jonathan Butler

Some people call me sick and twisted. I feel that I'm neither; I am instead a Romantic. — Kenzie Western

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe. — Rene Girard

I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. — Bill Nighy

I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes. — Robert J. Crane

But now he was married and had children, and even though he still had the boat the aura of island romanticism had gone. The long hair too. — Karl Ove Knausgard

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty. — Charles Baudelaire

She seemed like the kind of woman who would fall in love with the sky. — Nenia Campbell

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then. — Mariel Hemingway

The property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10 — Chris Hedges

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them
are ruinous! — William Dean Howells

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child. — Tamra Davis

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. — Federico Fellini

Negative Capacity, that is when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason. — Hyder Edward Rollins

I think,' said Raja Rao, 'unrestrained urge is promiscuity while passion refined is romanticism. — BS Murthy

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. — Ludwig Von Mises

We thought it was drops
of dew and kissed
cold tears from the crossgrass. — Jonas Hallgrimsson

Bartending took the romanticism out of drinking. — Ronda Rousey

As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military. — Scott Farris

I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals. — Emile Zola

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

It is thus the adventure of poetry, not the closure of philosophy, that most truly reflects the human condition. — Terry Eagleton

Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must have as many different experiences as we can. — Yuval Noah Harari

On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never. — Deepak Rana

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty. — Harold Bloom

For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss that our nature can receive. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them. — David Almond

National Socialism adapts Fascism, Bolshevism, Americanism, works it all into Teutonic Romanticism. — Victor Klemperer

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. — Julien Benda

The lightheaded and the fashionable are always willing to shed tears for distant underdogs. — Richard Brookhiser

Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again
— Giacomo Leopardi

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Realism is simply Romanticism that has lost its reason ... that is its reason for existing. — G.K. Chesterton

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives — Alfred De Musset

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over. — Jane Campion

It [Romanticism] is concerned - in the words of Aristotle - not with things as they are, but with things as they might be and ought to be. — Ayn Rand

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. — Charles Bukowski

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out. — Dawn Powell

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry. — E. M. Forster

You're more like dun-dun-na-NAH Romantic Man whose superpower is hopeless romanticism. Your bat signal would be a big red heart over Gotham. — Violet Duke

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. — Anita Brookner

I knew I might die, but I was prepared to risk that; it was almost romantic. Somehow it never occurred to me it might entail privation and suffering. — Iain M. Banks

(Romanticism is not a quality I despise, but it is inconvenient in a butler.) — Elizabeth Peters

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street. — Viktor Yanukovych

Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks. — Olivia Wilde

Boredom is simply romanticism with a morning-after thirst. — Samuel Hopkins Adams

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot. — Louis Simpson

Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them — Hermann Broch

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods. — Brad Mehldau

We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity. — The School Of Life

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

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

There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful. — Rae Hachton

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Americans were all farmers and shopkeepers at heart ... — Orson Scott Card

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. — Pattie Boyd

Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? — Colin Wilson

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in. — Pietros Maneos

If there is moonlight outside, don't stay inside! If there is candle inside, don't stay outside! Moments of romanticism are too valuable to be missed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are my flower and I your water,
you'll be with me always watered — Miguel El Portugues

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue. — John McCain

I'm sick of my own romanticism! — Anais Nin

No age seemed the age of romance to itself. — Thomas Carlyle

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When you fall in love, you land on a cloud. — Erol Ozan

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

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs. — Frank Borman

The gods grant nothing more than life,
So let us reject whatever lifts us
To unbreathable heights,
Eternal but flowerless. — Pessoa, Fernando

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

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt. — Elizabeth Peyton