Failure Quote by Wallace Stevens

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

— Wallace Stevens

“Sentimentality was a weakness begging to be exploited.”

— Ashlee Nicole Bye

“Sentimentality is the knife that cuts away logic and reason.”

— Sarah Noffke

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

— Leonora Carrington

“Where reason fails, emotion triumphs.”

— Rajesh D. Mudholkar

“Grief is a peculiar emotion.”

— Sebastian Faulks

“And someone who has never felt it can never understand what the absence of emotion feels like. It is a hopelessness of incomprehensible, unspeakable…

— Karen Fortunati

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

— Doris Lessing

“This is the inevitable fate of the sentimentalist. All his opinions change into their opposites at the first brush of reality.”

— George Orwell

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

— Norman Mailer

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into…

— Hermann Hesse

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way

— William Somerset Maugham