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At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.

— Brin-Jonathan Butler

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Elizabeth Peyton

Romantic love is painful.

— will.i.am

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

— Marya Mannes

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

— Anita Brookner

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

— Ann Voskamp

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

— Arthur Rimbaud

Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.

— Billy Strayhorn

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

— Jane Campion

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

— Havelock Ellis

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— T. E. Hulme