Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. — Krist Novoselic Copy Share Image
“Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is… — Jim Dodge Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'm leaving I get sentimental for that nostalgia I know I won't have the next day.” — Paul Neilan Copy Share Image
If I find myself being too earnest and sentimental and hyperbolic and simplistic, which is definitely a tendency I have, then I… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me. Delaney nodded. That doesn’t mean you… — holly hood Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville Copy Share Image
“I'm being sentimental, she thought, and turned to her room. He's an assassin. He doesn't care.” — T.L. Shreffler Copy Share Image
“I’m rather sentimental about the ruins—as a child, I halfheartedly attempted suicide there now and again, always returning from post-tourist-hours expeditions with… — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“I don't really ask myself too much where the ideas come from. When things touch you or anger you, you are moved… — Michael Haneke Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become… — Banksy Copy Share Image
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn’t as though I had a whole Rolodex full of… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not going to get too sentimental, like those other sticker valentines, 'cause I don't know if you are loving some body.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
What moves me is to know that I have been part of the sentimental life of many couples around the world. — Jose Jose Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is… — Charles Baxter 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
Contrary to general opinion, women are not so sentimental as men, but are much more hardheaded. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
“Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room. — Porter Robinson Copy Share Image
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense” — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Beware of sentimental alliances where the consciousness of good deeds is the only compensation for noble sacrifices. — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most… — Ted Simon Copy Share Image
It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm very impulsive and sentimental and quite possibly easy to read because I always express what I feel. — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
![“I don't really ask myself too much where the ideas come from. When things touch you or anger you, you are moved to want to examine them, to reflect on them. But yes, I guess you could say ['Amour'] is a memento mori, though it would never occur to me to use that term, since it might sound a little…” quote by Michael Haneke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd6/michael-haneke-3712_idea_i-don-t-really-ask-myself-too-much-where_977505.jpg)
