Sentimental Quotes

345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it. — Joan D. Vinge
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination… — David Nicholls
I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly businesslike attitude to life' That sort of thing.… — Agatha Christie
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was… — Annie Dillard
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Please don’t get sentimental,” said Jerome. “It’s nauseating. — Richelle Mead
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t… — John Irving
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me! — Anne Frank
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life. — Adrienne Rich
I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you… — Vladimir Nabokov
She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a… — Gustave Flaubert
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a… — Sue Grafton
People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else. — David Nicholls
My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. — Ernest Hemingway
Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die. — Denzel Washington
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love — Madame de Stael
Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the… — Sylvia Plath
He had married (as most young men did) because he had met a perfectly charming girl at the moment when a series of rather aimless… — Edith Wharton
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is… — Emilie Autumn
Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental… — J D Salinger
She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not… — Sarah Waters
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it. — Yasunari Kawabata
All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. — Margaret Atwood
My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then… — Frances Hardinge
With some break-ups, all you can think about afterwards is how badly it ended and how much the other person hurt you. With others, you… — David Levithan

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