Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.” — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Sometimes the pain hurts so good it brings happy tears to my eyes and reminds me I'm still alive. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism. — Sean O'Grady Copy Share Image
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Some people just don't understand, how coming into someone life and leaving them without no words said can effect someone, mentally, emotionally… — Sam Marcellin Copy Share Image
“I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else's experiences, to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
“The Germans are sentimental. Their word Heimweh . The English say homesick; the same in plain Swedish. Hemsjuk . Leave it to… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“It’s not just my body. I’m cold inside. Not disciplined properly. That’s what it is. I still long to cling to warm… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia. It haunts us, it destroys us, and sometimes, its sentimentality consumes us piece by piece so that we may realize our… — Bryant A. Loney Copy Share Image
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
if you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality… — Kenny Smith 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
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, two drugstore tuna-fish sandwiches,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“A sentimentalist is simply one who wants to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. We think we can… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Auggie said you were too sentimental for your own good sometimes." Out loud he said, "Perhaps, but you have taught me that… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If you have something to say to someone then say it before its too late — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
