Romantics Quotes

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride

“The most introspective of souls are often those that have been hurt the most.”
― Shannon Alder

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.”
― Richard Kadrey, Butcher Bird

“Shakespeare was one of the few philosophers who believed in revenge. Then again, he was a romantic. Romantics always believe in revenge, because romantics love harder, suffer loss more painfully, and hold onto a grudge that has shattered their hearts. Their hearts are of the greatest importance, above all else - body, soul, or mind.”
― S.T. Abby

“I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

“I should much wish, like the Indian Vishna, to float along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotus, and wake once in a million years for a few minutes – just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“But when first the two black dragons sprang out of the fog upon the small clerk, they had merely the effect of all miracles – they changed the universe. He discovered the fact that all romantics know – that adventures happen on dull days, and not on sunny ones. When the cord of monotony is stretched most tight, it it breaks with a sound like song.”
― G. K. Chesterton

“There are two kinds of romantics, my older cousin had explained, the kind who is constantly falling in love and simply needs a person into whom they can pour every thought, dream, and project, and the kind of romantic who remains alone, waiting and waiting for the right person to arrive, a person who may not even exist. It was too early to know which kind I would be.”
― Chloe Aridjis, Sea Monsters

“Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of blasphemy.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 2

“A romantic," said Nightingale much, much later. "The most dangerous people on Earth.”
― Ben Aaronovitch

“...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search for love, and nothing is more romantic than longing. The second is that they spend a lot of time thinking about who their partner might be, so it's hard to find the 3D version that matches who they've invented in their mind. It's less about perfection, and more about prescriptivism. They write their own version of how they think love is going to pan out, then they find it perplexing that no one seems to know the specific plot and characters other than them.”
― Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

“And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.”
― Lord Byron

“You fill me with apprehension. The appeal to Antiquity is fatal to us who are romanticists.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I could not choose but gaze; a fascination
Dwelt in that moon, and sky, and clouds”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Revolt Of Islam

“Keep your temperance, Alexander. I want to live!" He threw his hands into the air and he smiled out to the wide skies above.

That's what hope looks like, I thought.”
― Maddy Kobar, With a Reckless Abandon

“Such is a community
of inviolable immunity, protected
from tampering or harpooning
mutiny. Every better thinker’s impulse
to shrink us (at the shoreline from our
lifeblood’s deep pulse) uses disparaging
scrutiny to sink us.”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“Romanticism in loneliness is a true romanticism; but romanticism when others are around is suspicious because you may be pretending!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, tempting fate. She plays a terrible game of names. Thomas Love survives his beloved elder brother Percy Bysshe who died in a sailing accident. Percy Bysshe, buried at sea. The name and the man, a strange attractor. Everything is true.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

“I am more romantic than the Romantics!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Sade's work, with its compulsive attraction for the delinquent imagination of the romantics, has been instrumental in shaping aspects of the modern sensibility; its paranoia, its despair, its sexual terrors, its omnivorous egocentricity, its tolerance of massacre, holocaust, annihilation.”
― Angela Carter, The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“Though it was hardly a shock to him, because Father knew well by my sixteenth birthday how unpredictably erratic my temperament had become. His sweet Robert had died many years ago, along with his mother, and was replaced by this wicked little changeling who didn't ever care to temper his tongue. I had earned many a rival, enemy and smack upside the head for the mischievous things I said and did.”
― Maddy Kobar, From Out of Feldspar

“From her he had learned two fundamental things about love: first, that unlike what the romantics so pompously argued, love was a more gradual course than a sudden blossoming at first sight, and second, that he was capable of loving.”
― Elif Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul

“If you melt while looking at a melting candle, then you are a true romantic!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Love is no longer a crucial theme to discuss. It has lost its importance. It becomes a pearl of neglected wisdom, thrown away from its place, and is called only for joking and blaming.”
― Zainurrahman, Love Course

“Maybe, in the end, the romantics dreaming about Paris see the same thing in the city that I do: that empty stage. A place where the rough edges are sloughed off behind the scenes, where the pain disappears behind pale pink smiles and satin, where the stage lights erase all shadows as they illuminate you with an otherworldly glow.”
― Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ballerinas

“Moon-kissed balconies and seaside bridges
are life itself.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Peter

“In the end I believe scientists are hopeless romantics desperate in love with the idea that the world makes sense. Scientists have broken hearts and by combining toxic elements and reading the stars they are able to write poetry.”
― Royla Asgha