Selection of phrases on romanticism, aphorisms on being romantic and romantic quotes with reference to the artistic movement that arose in the late eighteenth century that spread music, literature and art inspired by emotions and sentimentality.
Aphorisms on romanticism
- Romance is part of each of us and sometimes we experience it for short periods, but it cannot last for a long time. It is a heroic path, which often ends dangerously. (Jane Campion)
- The attitude with which collectors woo paintings is romantic only in appearance: at the base of everything there is nothing but pure and simple lust. (Steve Martin)
- The so-called "realist" stands inaccessible to the world like a concrete wall, while the so-called "romantic" is an open garden in which reality enters and exits at will. (Joseph Roth)
- The adventure no longer exists. Romance either. There is only desire and problems. (Hal Hartley)
- A certain romance sleeps in every woman's heart. (Eve Belisle)
- A sentimental is simply one who wants to enjoy the luxury of an emotion without paying the price. In truth, sentimentality is simply the national holiday of cynicism. (Oscar Wilde)
- Good things are said about the need to share what you have with those who have nothing. But anyone who tries to put this principle into practice is immediately warned that all these great feelings are good only for poetry books, not in life. (Petr Alekseevic Kropotkin)
- If Laura had been Petrarch's wife, do you think he would have dedicated sonnets all her life? (Lord Byron)
- Women come to love even pain as long as it is romantic. (Madame de Stael)
- Romantics are always afraid of not living up to expectations. And their expectations are always excessive. (Graham Greene)
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- Transportation, delusion, emphasis, sacrifice, martyrdom, murder, suicide are romantic. And building life on these things is like building a house on shifting sands. (Eric Emmanuel Schmitt)
- You start saving the world by saving one person at a time. All the rest is great romance or politics. (Charles Bukowski)
- The nineteenth-century aversion to romance is Caliban's anger who doesn't see his face reflected in the mirror. (Oscar Wilde)
- Some dreams we have are nothing but dreams. Unnatural and full of contradictions; however some of our more romantic patterns are more than fantasies. (Thomas Hood)
- Romanticism is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion that was created for us. (Roger Ebert)
- If I start talking about love and stars, please: take me down. (Charles Bukowski)
- Show someone that you can't live without him, that's romantic. (Sylvia Day)
- To be a stupid romantic you have to be brave. (David Trueba)
Quotes about romance
- Life is a romantic affair. It's painting a picture, not making a sum - but you have to create romance and you get to the problem of how much passion you have in your belly. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
- I know nothing sadder than a hunchback in love or an ugly woman full of romantic ideals. (Emile Zola)
- You start saving the world by saving one person at a time; everything else is great romance or politics. (Charles Bukowki)
- It takes romantic spirit in life, it helps to make better also in work. (Romi Pak)
- Music is the most romantic of all the arts, one could almost say that it alone is romantic, since only infinity is its theme.
(Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann)
- Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives. (Alfred de Musset)
- The romantic submits to life, the classic dominates it. (Anais Nin)
- The French are authentic romantics. According to them, the only difference between a man in his forties and a man in his seventies is thirty years of experience. (Maurice Chevalier)
- Life is a romantic affair. It's painting a picture, not making a sum - but you have to create romance and you get to the problem of how much passion you have in your belly. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.)
- I am in horror of the sunsets, they are so romantic, so melodramatic. (Marcel Proust)
- They say we revolutionaries are romantic.Yes, it is true, but we are differently, we are those willing to give our lives for what we believe in. (Che Guevara)
- Romanticism is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion that was created for us. (Robert Ebert)
- Sentimentalism is a superstructure that covers brutality. (Carl Gustav Jung)
- Respectful to authority and intimately anarchists, often in acrimonious discrepancy with the world, romantics oscillate between fantastic strength and sterile reverie, moving from the ambition to embrace the word with infinity to silence, mixing all literary genres and pushing to the extreme of what can be said. (Claudio Magris)
- Ten years before his time a fashion is indecent; ten years later, it's awful; but a century later, it is romantic. (James Laver)
- Women want a fairytale story. Obviously not all women, but most women grow up dreaming of a type of man who would risk everything for them, but also knowing that they could hurt him. (Nicholas Sparks)
- Every revolutionary movement is romantic by definition. (Antonio Gramsci)
- Romantics consider common sense vulgar. (Mason Cooley)
Phrases about romance
- Cynicism never dies, while sentimentality hardly lasts. (Alexander Payne)
- I am a very romantic person and I would like to recite a love story, as long as it does not become mushy. (Michael Wincott)
- Romance is what touches sensitivity and invites it to emotion. (Atsuro Tayama)
- Where I come from, monogamy is against the law, because we are all cynical and romantic, sometimes at the same time, and marriage, with its commonplaces and its low voltage tran tran, has the same effect as garlic at a vampire. (Nick Hornby)
- If I start talking about love and stars, please: take me down. (Charles Bukowski)
- Romanticism is that fascination that transforms the dust of everyday life into a golden mist. (Elinor Glyn)
- When we give a higher sense to the municipality, a mysterious aspect to the ordinary, the dignity of the unknown to the known, to the finite an infinite appearance then I romanticize it. (Novalis)
- Although riding a motorcycle is romantic, taking care of its maintenance is decidedly classic. The dirt, the grease, the mastery of the underlying shape are so dissonant for a romantic sensitivity that women are careful not to deal with it. (Robert M. Pirsig)
- He takes my hand and slowly brings it to his mouth, then kisses it tenderly on the back, a gesture so romantic and old-fashioned that it makes my heart leap in my throat. (E.L.James)
- If one night in June he could speak, he would probably boast of having invented romance. (Bern Williams)
- The romantic is nostalgic, like Hamlet; seeks what it does not have, and goes beyond the clouds; he dreams, lives in dreams. (Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve)
- I'm a romantic. But how can a mathematician be. I mean that my approach to music is instinctive but since I am afraid of ending up with words in the clichés of romanticism, I go there cautiously and rely on a mathematical attitude. (David Byrne)
- Music makes you feel so romantic - or at least it always gets on someone's nerves - that nowadays it's the same thing. (Oscar Wilde)
- A sentimental person hopes that things will last, a romantic person has the desperate certainty that they will not last. (Francis Key Fitzgerald)
- Putting a letter and getting married are among the few things that are still absolutely romantic, because to be absolutely romantic something must be irrevocable. (G.K. Chesterton)
- I am in horror of the sunsets, they are so romantic, so melodramatic. (Marcel Proust)
- The sentimental is the one who would like to enjoy without taking on the immense responsibility of acting and judging. (James Joyce)
- To say the word romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed with every available artistic means. (Charles Baudelaire)
- When we give the municipality a higher sense, the ordinary a mysterious aspect, the known the dignity of the unknown, an infinite appearance at the end then I romanticize it. (Novalis)
