Quotes About Romanticism

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

Jennifer Lynch: My father deeply loved both of his parents, but he also despised all that goodness, the white picket fence and all that. He has a romantic idea of that stuff, but he also hated it because he wanted to smoke cigarettes and live the art life, and they went to church and everything was perfect and quiet and good. It made him a little nutty.

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

Bridget Jones has a lot to answer for.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Soon he would see war. Jis romanticism and inexperience insulated him from the thought that he might feel it, too.

N-am nimic impotriva romantismului. Il accept, asa cum accept desenele de pe o farfurie ori dantela unei lenjerii. E frumosul adaugat. Trebuie ca mai intai sa ne ocupam de cele esentiale. Avem dreptul la dantele dupa ce vor rezolva fondul problemei, esentialul.

Early laurels weigh like lead and of many of the boys whom I knew at Eton, I can say that their lives are over .... Once again romanticism with its death wish is to blame, for it lays an emphasis on childhood, on a fall from grace which is not compensated for by any doctrine of future redemption.

Two centuries ago, when our nation lost its sovereignty and was partitioned among Russia, Prussia and Austria, Polish Romantics like the poet and nationalist Adam Mickiewicz declared that independence would come only with great sacrifice. Ever since, this myth of the martyr, or messianic victim, has emerged during times of national crisis.

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

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear.

As it happened I did not grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to that bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where the artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I wait to hear.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

'The Impossible Dream' is, in my opinion, one of the greatest songs ever written. Here is a man, an old man, a very old man full of daring, bravery, courage, determination, romanticism and dreams.

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head. So this girl with the red notebook - it makes sense. If you never met her, she never has to get measured. She can be the girl in your head.

We can become, in other words, people for whom the romantic or existentialist dream might eventually begin to come at least partially true. But this is not, or not for the most part, something straightforwardly and completely given in baptism and in initial Christian faith.

Poetry is the flower of civilization," said Chesterton in one lecture. "Romanticism has worked itself out in our time in nonsense and dirt. We should remind the humanists that if poetry has become too personal it has also become unpoetic.

The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean...

Si pudiese volver a vivir mi vida, no elegiría por cierto el ser escritor y ver pasar mis días en una sociedad retrógrada en que la aventura yace debajo de la cama, como un perro. Necesitaría una aventura-león. Me haría físico teórico para vivir en el corazón ardiente del romanticismo verdadero.

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

Everyone looks like they've just stepped out of a Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting that he never got around to finishing because even he knew it was too over the top. It

I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Known throughout his career for penetrating insights and a lack of romanticism, he wrote that "one of humanity's oldest and most recalcitrant human dilemmas" consists of the choice between "a limited collaboration with evil, in the interests of its ultimate mitigation" and "an uncompromising, heroic but suicidal resistance to it.

I don't know if I am romanticizing, mythologizing, or being nostalgic. I assume all three. That seems to be how the brain breaks things down after a certain age. I