209 Quotes About Romanticism

Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives

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 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.

Deep down, for better and for worse, I consider myself to be a romantic. Whether that consideration is correct, I have no idea.

It’s not enough for me to be sure that you and I are together. I want to know if we’re on a shared path to ecstasy.

I am more romantic than the Romantics!

Dr Allendy said that it was necessary to become equal to life, that the romantic was defeated by life, really died of it, whether by tuberculosis in the old days, or by neurosis today. I had never thought before of the connection between neurosis and romanticism. Wanting the impossible? Dying when unable to reach it? Not wanting to compromise?

Each interesting piece of knowledge, feeling or experience, if others don’t share it with me, is a mountain that separates me from those with whom I would like to join.

Let the romantic minds meet the romantic cities and after that the candle of romanticism shines on earth like a sun!