Sentimental Quotes · Page 7

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

— Anonymous

Shaan is very sentimental, he is a heart guy. I loved 'Tanha dil.'

— KK

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

— Denzel Washington

The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.

— Thomas Huxley

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

— William Hamilton Maxwell

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

— Wayne Pacelle

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

— Anne Frank

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

— Frederick Wiseman

Frequently people think compassion and love are merely sentimental. No! They are very demanding. If you are going to be compassionate, be…

— Desmond Tutu

The things I tend to do best are the things that are the most overtly emotional, whether it's sentimental or whether it's…

— Alan Menken

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

— Margaret Atwood

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is…

— Charles Ferguson

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

— Irving Babbitt

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

— Gus Van Sant

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series…

— Edith Wharton

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical,…

— Charles Dudley Warner

Strangely enough, my favorite airport is Logan Airport in Boston - but largely for sentimental reasons. My first real summer job was…

— Amor Towles

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Becoming a father made me a lot more sentimental than I ever was before. I never cried at movies before I became…

— Boots Riley

It's interesting, for me sappy means sentimental and something that gets you in your heart, gets you emotional. That's what I mean.…

— Alan Cumming

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a…

— Georgina Chapman

Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded…

— James Marcus

Sitting for a picture is morbid business. A portrait doesn't begin to mean anything until the subject is dead. This is the…

— Don DeLillo

Some of them [family names] have sentimental value for some reason or another, some of them just sound beautiful. Some of them…

— John Legend

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts…

— Sandra Scarr

“I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic…

— Frank O'Hara

“Look now. Look at what you value, what you hold dear. Objects, first. And not necessarily because of their innate value (although…

— Stephanie Kallos

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they…

— Greg Mottola

I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be…

— Jay McInerney

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think…

— Margaret Atwood

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

— Chrissie Hynde

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

— Billy Corgan

There is no such cozy combination as man and wife.

— Menander

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

— Kenny Chesney

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

— Fred Durst

Where is the rain when you need it as background music.

— Jet

I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist.

— Noah Centineo

“For me, the most expensive thing in this world is the sentimental value.”

— Alon Calinao Dy