20 Romantics Quotes for You to Enjoy

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive. Jeff Bridges

Hurt Crushed Alive Part Most Protecting Shell Dear Still Been Tiny Romantics Sensitive Them Really Cynicism Cynics

The real romantics imagine greying and sagging and wrinkling as the deepening of something sacred. Ann Voskamp

Something Sacred Real Romantics Deepening Imagine

The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs. Ann Voskamp

Heart Bore Boring Another Real Romantics Hole Deep

In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times. Daniel H. Wilson

World Will Manners Relationships Nerds Simpler Impersonal True Perhaps Arms Imported End Times In The End Romantics Flee Choose Who

Music, for me, is as important as fashion. The first visuals I remember are Elvis Presley, David Bowie, New Romantics, and different punk bands. Edward Enninful

Music Fashion Me Remember Punk First Important Elvis Elvis Presley Visuals David David Bowie New Bowie Bands Different Romantics

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. Ellen Willis

Education Truth Me Courage Secular Face Corrupt Religious Imperative Advertiser Supreme Well Scorn Governments Optimism Dominated Revolutionaries Taught Artists Romantics Modernist Manipulative Who Awful Thinkers

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. James Buchan

Hope Desperate Suicide Gaza Distant Prestige East Security Districts More Small Gives Both Brutal Most Still However West Bloody Than Current Middle Middle East Regarded Romantics Little Victories Bin Bombers Symbolic Chance

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy. Karl Marlantes

Better Healthy Military Think Thinking Wayne Kids John John Wayne Better Off Go Off Any Going Want Romantics Pacifist Need

Romantics consider common sense vulgar. Mason Cooley

Sense Consider Vulgar Common Romantics Common Sense

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue. Mohnish Pabrai

Great Problem Out Run No Clue Most Hang Romantics Clue Who

I think Bach is equally a romantic composer because he laid the seeds harmonically for people like Chopin and the great Romantics, Brahms, so it's difficult to you know all this like labelling and putting - I think Bach is attractive to musicians because he supersedes the labels. Nigel Kennedy

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics. Ramin Djawadi

Love Music Down Classical Romantic Romantics Deep Deep Down

The early music I heard was Top of the Pops. But in bedrooms, around the house with my brother playing the Sex Pistols, Sham 69 and the Ham and all these groups then going into that sort of mod turnover scene and then going into the New Romantics scene the coming of age myself in the mid-eighties and into the noughties, it was changing. Sean Dyche

Music Myself Age Sex Changing Top Sex Pistols Brother Scene Sham New House Sort Around Ham Bedrooms Coming Coming Of Age Heard Pistols Going Romantics Then Turnover Pops Groups Early Playing

We were romantics in the 1990s and thought that communism was dead. But 10 years passed, and Putin came, and it became obvious that the process is reversible; that communism will, to varying degrees, return again and again. Svetlana Alexievich

Communism Will Thought Degrees Putin Dead Obvious Return Became Passed Came Were Years Process Romantics Again

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy. Thom Gunn

Generation Book Gave Consider Only He Him Read Learned Were Romantics Apart Wordsworth Even Keats Copy University

Bath was hardly known for its rock’n roll. We weren’t part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that. Roland Orzabal

Bath London Scene Part New Known Roll Any Romantics Hardly

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