Sentimental Quotes - Page 4

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife, That prays and whimpers of the higher life.

I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

A woman's sentimental monkeyshines will always deceive her lover, who invariably waxes ecstatic where her husband necessarily shrugs his shoulders.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is what makes us human

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

I don't know if I like being the sentimental favorite.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

Everything gets to me. I'm very sentimental.

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

The love of God is no mere sentimental feeling; it is redemptive power!

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.