209 Quotes About Romanticism

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.

For there was soft remembrance, and sweet trustIn one fond breast, to which his own would melt,And in its tenderer hour on that his bosom dwelt.

It's not the end if you're too shy to say 'I love you.' It's only the beginning; because you're first meant to show it anyway.

Energy was the ruling theme of Victorian science, as machines increasingly harnessed the forces of nature to do man's work. The concept is also present in the art and literature of the age, notably in the poems of William Blake. The Romantic movement was much interested in energy and its various transformations.

Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping forms, a nervous preoccupation with perpetually changing inner states of consciousness, a longing for the unbounded and the indefinable, for perpetual movement and change, an effort to return to the forgotten sources of life, a passionate effort at self-assertion both individual and collective, a search after means of expressing an unappeasable yearning for unattainable goals.

Love can never die, not completely. There were too many romantics, too many poets, too many places where lovers could meet and kisses could be shared.

Vagueness spurred him into knight errantry.

Behind my romanticism lies a primitive woman with primitive hungers.

Let yourself live as you are without playing tricks on yourself, i.e., without trying to force yourself to love things that you cannot love.