Complaining Quote by William S. Burroughs

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

— William S. Burroughs

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

I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental.

— Noah Centineo

There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.

— James Purdy

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

— Wallace Stevens

Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.

— Phyllis Smith

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

— Norman Mailer

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

— Chrissie Hynde

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

— D. H. Lawrence

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

— Max Beckmann

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

— Josh Radnor