#romantic

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye! and what then? ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#flower #irrational #romanticism #dreams

you don't love a girl because of beauty, you love her because she sings a song only you can understand" -James ↗

— L.J. Smith

#romantic #beauty

Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#romantic

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#could #ever #guy #heard #just

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#bored #comedy #day #death #doing

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. ↗

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

#colorful #drab #his #itself #life

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#citizen #compromises #everybody #family #his

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. ↗

— Robert Smith

#death #i #romantic #think #way

My idea of a romantic night is to watch action films. ↗

— Corey Hart

#action #action films #films #idea #night