There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.
If there is anybody I detest, it is weak-minded sentimentalists-all those melancholy people who, out of an excess of sympathy for others, miss the thrill of their own essence and drift through life without identity, like a human fog, feeling sorry for everyone.
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
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