Sentimental Quotes

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor

Life, Bitterness, Expect

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hope, Romantic, Person

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

Wise, Makes, Injustice

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.
Paul Simon

Heart, Real, Fashion

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.
Jean Cocteau

Work, Art, Value

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

Remember, Notion

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland

Love, After, Wine

I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
Patrick Stewart

Absurd, Canvas, Transitory

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

Love, Music, Sad

I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.
Susan Orlean

Home, Everyone, Idea

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

Both, Movement, Sides

I'm not terribly sentimental.
Katherine Heigl

I'm a sentimental guy.
Fred Durst

I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.
Maurice Sendak

Mean, Remember, Small

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Frank Herbert

Same, Away, Between

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

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.
Gus Van Sant

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
Gus Van Sant

Film, Quality, Films

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
James Taylor

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
Norman Mailer

Few, Lies, Born

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.
Gus Van Sant

Marriage, Legal, Gay

I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
Grimes

Love, Music, Person

One man's uplift is another man's sentimental hooey.
Josh Radnor

Another, Uplift

I am not a sentimental person.
Jack Kevorkian

On the set I make jokes I can't get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light.
Michael Haneke

Try, Light, Keep

It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.
A. N. Wilson

Music, Sadness, Doubt

My dad's side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There's an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It's very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It's very warm, it's very up, it's very down. I would celebrate that.
Nick Clegg

Music, Family, Art

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.
Jarvis Cocker

Music, Sadness, Songs

Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?
Mitch Albom

That's the rub about 'Community' - for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don't show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves.
Rob Sheffield

Down, Become, Tell

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