Sentimental Quotes - Page 6

• As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

  Stephen Fry

  Ambition, Wrestling, Worry

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.152, Soho Press

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• My wife is really sentimental. One Valentine's Day I gave her a ring and to this day she has never forgotten those three little words that were engraved inside Made in Taiwan!

  Leopold Fechtner

  Best Love, Valentine, Wife

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Deceit, Lovers

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• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

  George William Curtis

  Dark, Light, Civilization

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• Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sight, Smell, Sketching

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 238, 1982.

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• I want to do drawings which touch some people... In either figure or landscape I wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sadness, Drawing, People

  Vincent van Gogh (1971). “Van Gogh's "diary"; the artist's life in his own words and art”

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• The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.

  Jonathan Raban

  Feet, America, Rude

  1990 HuntingMister Heartbreak, ch.2.

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• Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  People, Genuine, Ill

  Elizabeth Goudge (1963). “The Scent of Water”

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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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• 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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• The Russians are a very sentimental people.

  Mike Jackson

  People

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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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• Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Thinking, Blur

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.221, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Love, Broken Heart, Views

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

  J. D. Salinger

  Jesus, Stupid, Heaven

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free.

  Sarah Waters

  Cutting, Hair, Wings

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• Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Pain, Going Away, Doe

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Thousand Cranes”, p.31, Vintage

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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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• 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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