In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious. — Robert C. Solomon Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
I'm tired of trying, I'm sick of crying, but yeah I'm smiling but in the inside I'm dying. — Christine Mae Sajo Gallego Copy Share Image
Give me some time give me some brain give me another chance to write the paper once again — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
“Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from… — Michael Lewis 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
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because… — Golda Meir Copy Share Image
I have come to this conclusion: if 'sentimentality' is lazy emotion, then the term itself is lazy criticism. — Andrew Sean Greer 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
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
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others,… — John Cheever 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
I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of… — Bal Gangadhar Tilak 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
“Look now. Look at what you value, what you hold dear. Objects, first. And not necessarily because of their innate value (although… — Stephanie Kallos Copy Share Image
“It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed… — Danielle Wood Copy Share Image
In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE: "Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least… — Alice Simpson Copy Share Image
A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
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
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“Your sentimentality softens all the edges, you’re misremembering. Take a moment to recall it as it really was: fucking hell.” — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It's hard when u meet the right LOVE at the wrong TIME, but what's more painful is when u have to GIVE… — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people,… — Thomas Kinkade Copy Share Image
Apologizing does not mean that you are wrong and another person is right. It just means that you value right attitude and… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
