Sentimental Quotes

345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that… — Patrick Stewart
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. — James Taylor
At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it. — Peter Ustinov
All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women. — Voltaire
I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh...… — Betty White
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever. — Daniel Webster
Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and… — Vivienne Westwood
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness… — A. N. Wilson
If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together... there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you… — A A Milne
Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. — Lorrie Moore
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is… — Hunter S. Thompson
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out. — Gore Vidal
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and… — Nick Hornby
A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People… — Mark Helprin
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist. — Thomas Pynchon
Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one… — Virginia Woolf
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In… — Curtis Sittenfeld
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's… — Margaret Atwood
What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… — Henry Miller
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. — Carl Jung
But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees… — Albert Camus
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. — Leo Buscaglia
I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses… — Jim Harrison

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