Sentimental Quotes - Page 3

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

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

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

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

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow.

Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?