Romanticism Quotes

The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinki...

If there is a dark and hostile power, laying its treacherous toils within us, by which it holds us f...

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about...

Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our...

(visions) of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange brig...

I fancy my father thought me an odd child, and had little fondness for me; though he was very carefu...

I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much i...

Freedom is the dream you dreamWhile putting thought in chains again --

Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping...

You," Seven pronounced, "are a train wreck of sexual history."But this is inaccurate. A runaway trai...

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishe...

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child -...

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow m...

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has ...

The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...

Kiss me, so long but as a kiss may last!

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of ...

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that...

Usually, the murmur that rises up from Paris by day is the city talking; in the night it is the city...

As a people, we have been tolled farther and farther away from the facts of what we have done by the...

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by lif...