Romanticizing Quotes

“We have scholars galore, and kings and emperors, and statesmen and military leaders, and artists in profusion, and inventors, discoverers, explorers - but where are the great lovers? After a moment's reflection one is back to Abelard and Heloise, or Anthony and Cleopatra, or the story of the Taj Mahal. So much of it is fictive, expanded and glorified by the poverty-stricken lovers whose prayers are answered only by myth and legend.”
― Henry Miller

“The collapse of communism and a recognition of its economic and humanitarian catastrophes took the romance out of revolutionary violence and cast doubt on the wisdom of redistributing wealth at the point of a gun.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“Brian's death was the clearest and most horrifying example of my terrific obsession with the unattainable. Alive, his biggest flaw was most likely that he liked me. Dead, his perfections were clearer.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“Romanticizing comes with colored glasses of the most colored sort.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“،ذہن کو کچھ خاص یاد بھی نہیں
پر یادداشت کو یقین ہے
، کہ جو بیت چُکا ہمیشہ کے لِیے
وہی وقت سب سے حسین ہے۔
،موجودگی میں معمولی سا لگتا تھا
اب گُزر گیا تو شخصِیت عظیم ہے۔
، کوئ کمی بھی نہیں ہے ’آج‘ میں
یوں ہی بے وجہ دِل غمگین ہے۔
سمجھنے کی بات ہے زِندہ صِرف ’آج‘ ہے۔
بھلے زِندگی کل، آج، اور کل میں تقسیم ہے۔”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“The key, my darling, is romanticizing the little things. The steam of your coffee, the flicker of a flame, the rain dripping down the pane of the window. The moment you stop romanticizing your life is the moment you've already dugged your own grave.”
― Kate Kimbrell, Ambrose