Romanticize Quotes

“It's easy to romanticize the people in our lives that mean something to us. We elevate them onto a higher plane that the rest of humanity. They appear glorious and pristine and full of wonders of the Universe all wrapped up into one person-sized box waiting to be unpacked. It's easy to forget, when they appear perfect in every way and in every facet of their lives with every action they take, in the end they are still human. And we duly forget being human comes with an inherent composition of flaws in our genetic and mental make-up.”
― August Clearwing, Never Have I Ever

“You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.”
― Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

“...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“I romanticize life the way artists see scenery or a dreamer gazes up at the stars.”
― Anastasia Bolinder

“That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“She gave a shiver, and suddenly clutched her arms about her body. She spoke, Gascoigne thought, with an exhilarated fatigue, the kind that comes after the first blush of love, when the self has lost its mooring, and, half-drowning, succumbs to a fearful tide. But addiction was not love; it could not be love. Gascoigne could not romanticize the purple shadows underneath her eyes, her wasted limbs, the dreamy disorientation with which she spoke; but even so, he thought, it was uncanny that opium's ruin could mirror love's raptures with such fidelity.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“You're such an agonizer, Bradley. You romanticize art. You're a masochist about it, you want to suffer, you want to feel that your inability to create is continuously significant.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“There is a tendency to romanticize the abilities of the ancient Egyptians because they produced structures that were miraculous for their time and certainly would pose a serious challenge to ours. They were somehow immensely more talented with sticks and stones than modern researchers have been able to demonstrate using the same implements. When pondering the theories proffered by Egyptologists, one gets the impression that an ancient Egyptian quarry worker was like a maestro playing a complete symphony on a violin made of a cigar box and a stick and producing the quality of a Stradivarius.
The argument is pleasing and poetic, but the trouble is that, metaphorically speaking, when modern scholars make a violin from a cigar box and a stick, its results are precisely what you would expect from a cigar box and a stick. So the question persists: From what instruments did the symphonic architecture of Egypt materialize?”
― Christopher Dunn, Lost Technologies of Ancient Egypt: Advanced Engineering in the Temples of the Pharaohs

“And meanwhile everybody's wondering what this old woman with half her face drooping onto her shoulder is doing bagging their groceries. You have no idea how I envy you your cubicle. The invisibility of it."
"Let's not romanticize the cubicle," Pip said.
"This is the terrible thing about bodies. They're so visible, so visible.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“the first year on your own is better than the others
then it's calculating bank accounts and it's the

first of the month and rent is due and you sit and
romanticize your childhood bedroom.”
― Jessie Knoles, Chasing Old Haunts

“It’s time to start living.
I will live for sunsets,
Cloudy days,
White roses,
Fresh coffee,
Good poetry,
Great music,
I will live for everything.”
― Hope Moore

“People romanticize the idea of making their happiness dependent on another human being that they cannot be happy without their presence. Your happiness is yours and is worth much more than anyone else’s presence.”
― Nitya Prakash

“People who romanticize solitude have never lived alone for a very long time.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“Don’t romanticize a person’s potential in your life. Look at the now. The present moment. What are they showing you?”
― Robin S. Baker

“There was no intention on our parts to end up that way, stuck forever in a moment of great distress. And people think time gives them the right to switch up the lens, to romanticize a thing and make up meaning from it.”
― Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev