Essence Quote by Margaret Ayer Barnes

Today, I defined 'sentimental' to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling.

— Sheila Heti

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

— Norman Mailer

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

— Josh Radnor

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

— Graham Greene

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

— Brad Mehldau

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

— James Russell Lowell

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way…

— Michael Bierut

When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or…

— Bill Richardson

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to…

— Ted Simon

That sadness of something that was once so sweet, sunny and quixotic and then it turns to cold, bitterness and silence.

— Sophie Lianne

Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.

— Robert Hass