Sentimental Quotes

345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. — D. H. Lawrence
Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time. It's an old soldiers' song,' he… — Terry Pratchett
End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back,… — Woody Allen
It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that… — Douglas Adams
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. — Naguib Mahfouz
Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of… — Wilkie Collins
Neighborhood is a word that has come to sound like a Valentine. As a sentimental concept, 'neighborhood' is harmful to city planning. It leads to… — Jane Jacobs
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is… — David Foster Wallace
I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the… — Rob Sheffield
I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast… — Mary Pickford
I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don’t want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I… — Stephen Fry
Identification with the rag called the national flag is an emotional and sentimental factor and for that factor you are willing to kill another -… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,… — Martin Amis
And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. — L. Frank Baum
To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To… — William Arthur Ward
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those… — Colum McCann
Goodness was more difficult than evil. Evil men knew that more than good men. That's why they became evil. That's why it stuck with them.… — Colum McCann
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you — David Nicholls
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising… — Stephen Batchelor
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to… — Pema Chodron
My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . .… — David Foster Wallace
To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true. — Roddy Doyle

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