The Romantic Quotes

“when the great intolerance of faith was lost, the secular robe of office had to supplant the sacred one, and society had to separate itself into secular hierarchies with secular uniforms and invest these with the absolute authority of a creed. And because, when the secular exalts itself as the absolute, the result is always romanticism, so the real and characteristic romanticism of that age was the cult of the uniform, which implied, as it were, a superterrestrial and supertemporal idea of uniform, an idea which did not really exist and yet was so powerful that it took hold of men far more completely than any secular vocation could, a non-existent and yet so potent idea that it transformed the man in uniform into the property of his uniform, and never into a professional man in the civilian sense; and this perhaps simply because the man who wears the uniform is content to feel that he is fulfilling the most essential function of his age and therefore guaranteeing the security of his own life.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“He’d learn that destiny and love speak the same language, and it’s for that reason that heartbreak is experienced. ~The Romantic”
― Felix Alexander

“Sitting next to him for such a long time made me want to ravish him on the beach where grains of sand would coat our bodies.'

The Romantic featured in Summer Romances”
― Sarah Stein, Summer Romances