Romanticism Quotes
Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare
History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.
I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
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.
We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.
A woman is at heart – a wild creature.But the creature itself … that depends on you. (His wild rabbit – your wild horse)
Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear morbid to the sturdycommon sense of a burgher-class in the making.
I still remember that feeling of walking somewhere confidently, seeing him mid stride and putting my foot down just fine… but feeling like I stumbled.
I’d never dreamed anybody could love me the way he did. And even when he proved it to me time and again – I still could hardly believe it was true.
I believe in love at first sight…But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first see the person they truly are.
He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.
I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.
I believe in love at first sight…But it’s not the first moment you lay eyes on a person, it’s the moment you first seethe person they truly are.
Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.
Your memory feels like home to me.So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.
I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable.
As sometimes happens with men who wish to fight but do not or cannot, Reagan developed a romantic image of the military.
The gods grant nothing more than life, So let us reject whatever lifts us To unbreathable heights, Eternal but flowerless.
Romanticism is the expression of man’s urge to rise above reason and common sense, just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.
I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.
Aaron snorted "That's so cheesy.""Well yeah. I am cheesy. I'm the king of cheese. You should know that by now.Aaron's eyes were dancing with amusement. "I prefer to call you classically romantic.
On a cloudy night, when nothing seems above, still, there is love. Always love. For something, from someone. It's never done. Never.
If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.
Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!
Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.
There is absolutely nothing monstrous about being a vampire. In fact, it's quite beautiful.
Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we were suffering for lack of bread.
Fall in lovewith the energyof the morningstrace your fingers along the lullof the afternoonstake the spirit of the eveningsin your armskiss it deeply and thenmake loveto the tranquilityof the nights.
I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.
The beauties of the North seemed to be intensified by the loss we had experienced there, and they drew us back to them.
