Sentimental Quotes

Devotion (Bhakti) includes Sentimental Devotion (Bhav Bhakti) and Devotion through action (Kruti Bhakti).

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.

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

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

Wedlock is the deep, deep peace of the double bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise lounge.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

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

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

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.

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

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.

The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In the moment, you have to pee, your arm itches, or what people are saying strikes you as melodramatic or sentimental, and it's hard not to smirk. You have a sense of what this type of situation should be like - for one thing, all-consuming - and this isn't it. But then you look back, and it was that; it did happen.

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.

What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.

No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had it, so I know it's real.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

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

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

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

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.

I knew that the principle objective of my film was to be a sentimental or an emotional study. What I did was kind of like subterfuge.

I get sentimental over the music of the ’90s. Deplorable, really. But I love it all. As far as I’m concerned the ’90s was the best era for music ever, even the stuff that I loathed at the time, even the stuff that gave me stomach cramps.

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment;
the one being essentially restricted,
like everything that is positive,
while the other is infinite.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.

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.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.