Sentimental Quotes - Page 4

• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Birthday, Age

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• Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Birthday, Age, Doe

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• To make the public sentiment on the side of all that is just and true and noble is the highest use of life.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Justice, Noble

  Lucy Stone, Henry Browne Blackwell, Leslie Wheeler (1981). “Loving warriors: selected letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893”, Doubleday

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• My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still there. . . . Do you identify with a distaste/fear about sentimentality? Do you agree that, past a certain line, such distaste can turn everything arch and sneering and too ironic? Or do you have your own set of abstract questions to drive yourself nuts with?

  David Foster Wallace

  Strong, Fighting, Past

  "David Foster Wallace" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. September 29, 2008.

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• Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Love, Break Up, Hate

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• I am not a sentimental person.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Persons

  "Kevorkian: 'I have no regrets'". Interview with Ann Arbor, www.cnn.com. June 13, 2010.

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• High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

  Thomas Kinkade

  Culture, Paranoid, Sentiments

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• Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

  Ed Koch

  Birthday, Years, Cities

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2012

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• 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

  Song, Sadness, Kind

  "Paris match" by Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

  Ugo Betti

  Guilt, Kind, Shame

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

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• O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart
  Piece of the puzzle, you're my missing part
  Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?

  Zooey Deschanel

  Life, Heart, Old Habits

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• I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs."

  Greg Mottola

  Heart, Scary, Pet

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• The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.

  Camille Paglia

  Beautiful, Block, Equality

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• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Children, Silly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Men, Suffering

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2013). “The Greatest Works of Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment + The Brother's Karamazov + The Idiot + Notes from Underground + The Gambler + Demons (The Possessed / The Devils)”, p.2102, e-artnow

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• Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

  Nick Hornby

  Hopeful, Way, Feels

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin

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• A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.

  Mark Helprin

  Hate, Real, Hero

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• There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Surrealist

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.541, Penguin

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• 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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Silly, Thinking, Peter

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.191, Broadview Press

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• And I shall find some girl perhaps, and a better one than you, With eyes as wise, but kindlier, and lips as soft, but true, and I dare say she will do.

  Rupert Brooke

  Love, Break Up, Broken Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2010). “Collected Poems”, p.103, The Oleander Press

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• [Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Mindfulness, Belief, Metaphysical

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• Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Broken Heart, Kissing

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.

  Albert Camus

  Sleep, Men, Light

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony. ... A lot of good fiction is sentimental. ... The novelist who refuses sentiment refuses the full spectrum of human behavior, and then he just dries up. ... I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

  Jim Harrison

  Love, Disappointment, Tired

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• Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Feelings, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8441, Delphi Classics

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