I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
“...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species… — Will Christopher Baer Copy Share Image
In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with… — Ammon Hennacy Copy Share Image
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to… — Adrian Carton de Wiart Copy Share Image
“For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that… — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
My ultimare goal is, without illusion and without sentimentality, merely by telling the truth as I see it, to break your heart.… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an… — Max Gallo Copy Share Image
We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality. — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Shadows are our reflection of our self the show us what we look like, but like them we can change whats inside — Michael Country Copy Share Image
“How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality?” — William Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Deviation from the word of God is sentimentality and says 'you're right' to this one, and 'you're right' to that one, and… — Milton Rokeach Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If You Become Too Sentimental It Is Hard To Lead A Life, And If You Become Too Practical It Is Hard To… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody,… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned. — Margaret Ayer Barnes Copy Share Image
“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger,… — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“As sentimentality towards animals can be overindulged, so, too, can grim realism, seeing only the things we want in animals and not… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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