Sentimental Quotes

345 Sentimental quotes by 302 unique authors

I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here… — Michael Arditti
I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too.… — Ernest Hemingway
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
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity… — Eugene V. Debs
You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are… — Peter Cundall
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you… — Jean Rhys
We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental… — John Yau
"God is love". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life,… — Pope Francis
Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don't have to embrace it. It would be… — Colum McCann
Love is not a sentimental attachment to a human being; love is a mode of conduct that comes from the heart. — Ma Jaya
If any feel that as psychiatrists directing a hospital for alcoholics we appear somewhat sentimental, let them stand with us a while on the firing… — William Duncan Silkworth
True love, unlike popular sentimental substitutes, is willing to suffer. Love is not "luv." Love is the cross. Our problem at first, the sheer problem… — Peter Kreeft
Do not think that your crying and complaints can force Jesus to become sentimental and then give Himself out so cheaply. — T. B. Joshua
New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities… — John Gregory Dunne
Retiring from cricket is not about form. I feel that the time is now and it's right. I've tried to give everything I have when… — Kumar Sangakkara
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an… — Milan Kundera
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor,… — Martin Amis
Patriotism is not sentimental nonsense. Nor something dreamed up by demagogues. Patriotism is as necessary a part of man's evolutionary equipment as are his eyes,… — Robert A. Heinlein
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss… — Alan Moore
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan,… — Ron Rash
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be… — Brigid Brophy
Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus, — Richard Rohr
At noon I feel as though I could devour all the elephants of Hindostan, and then pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg cathedral;… — Heinrich Heine
While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is… — Timothy Keller

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