The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
The real romantics are the boring ones - they let another heart bore a hole deep into theirs.
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.
The concept of romantic love affords a means of emotional manipulation which the male is free to exploit, since love is the only circumstance in which the female is (ideologically) pardoned for sexual activity.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Romantic love is an addiction.
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.