Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks – tales of erotic suffering.
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.
To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
Philosophy is the product of wonder. The effort after the general characterization of the world around us is the romance of human thought.
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
Romance is always young.
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
It’s the contemporary woman that movies don’t know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
Romance is very particular to each individual and a very personalised thing.
Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn’t exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.
Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast.
Saying you’re through with romance is like saying you’re done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know.
You said she’s a senior? Babe we’re ALL crazy.
True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
I’m ready for something private, private and real.
I realise it’s going to happen. This girl of my dreams, this girl who is more like me than anyone I’ve ever met, wants to kiss me.
The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.