“Time makes us sentimental. Perhaps, in the end, it is because of time that we suffer.” — André Aciman Copy Share Image
Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction. — Chuck Berry Copy Share Image
“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.” — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
“Im thankful for this moment coz i know that i grow a day older and see how this sentimental fool can be” — Dee Copy Share Image
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it… — John Surtees Copy Share Image
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless… — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story. [...] This is early days in… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Only with great care. For thousands, carols will be their only link with a church. At the same time, sentimentality is perhaps… — Jeremy Begbie Copy Share Image
“Don't tell me I'm sentimental, you sons of bitches. You are contemptible, your dishonesty is contemptible, your careful plodding with words, to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tully starts in again. 'See, the hidden value can go way deeper than sentimental attachment. Sometimes you feel it down to your… — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We cannot be rooted in the past forever. We must not be sentimental.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“Your not old you are like wine, you get better over time." -Melissa Mona” — Haileigh Horton Copy Share Image
Unlike men, women got less sentimental as we aged, I was discovering. — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Party action should follow, not precede the creation of a dominant popular sentiment. — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental. — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image