It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion. — Jean-Pierre Dardenne Copy Share Image
Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer 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
To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I can promise you we will have good times, bad times, that there will be times you'll want to walk away but… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is… — Peter Alliss Copy Share Image
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If something is bound to happen, it will happen. In the right time, with the right person and for the best reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the only things he had ever given her that she hadn’t discarded in their divorce, both retained in the name of sentimentality.” — David Mack Copy Share Image
Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
From time to time there is a move to do a little less in the way of period dramas, but people rebel.… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
...we sacrifice other species to our own not because our own has any objective metaphysical privilege over others, but simply because it… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I honestly never intended food to occupy so much of my creative work. Food-writing often seems about to plummet straight into sentimentality.… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for… — Tracy K. Smith 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
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
“It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in… — Hugh of Saint Victor Copy Share Image
“From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex.… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
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