Sentimentality Quotes

Sentimentality Quote of the day

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.

Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

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

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Love without truth devolves into sentimentality. Truth without love becomes cold and calculated.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don't lift a finger for a lost cause.

Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.

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

I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

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 action.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

Old birds like Orlovius are wonderfully easy to lead by the beak, because a combination of decency and sentimentality is exactly equal to being a fool.

I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way.