Sentimental Quotes

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.

Little Mr. Bowley, who had rooms in the Albany and was sealed with wax over the deeper sources of life but could be unsealed suddenly, inappropriately, sentimentally, by this sort of thing––poor women waiting to see the Queen go past––poor women, nice little children, orphans, widows, the War––tut tut––actually had tears in his eyes.

Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in our father's place. That's not him, we said to our mother, That's not him, but our mother no longer seemed to hear us..."Did you...she said. "Every day," he replied. Then he got down on his knees and he took us into his arms...

Here is our rapin' cave. It's not much of a cave... and we haven't done much rapin'... but man, we've had some good times.

Writer Brigid Brophy exposes [their motives] with great precision:"Whenever people say 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it. These slogans have a long history. After being used to justify slave traders, ruthless industrialists, and contractors who had found that the most economically 'realistic' method of cleaning a chimney was to force a small child to climb it, they have now been passed on, like an heirloom, to the factory farmers. 'We mustn't be sentimental' tries to persuade us that factory farming isn't, in fact, cruel. It implies that the whole problem had been invented by our sloppy imaginations.

Peter Cox

It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at ‘our favorite spot,’ and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life,’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

Close People Are That Closer, As They Can Share Everything With A Stranger But Not To The Really Closed Ones.

Jay Patel

Don't waste your breath/trying to escape/if a pure love you don't have/no one will be saved.

P.M. Highlanders

Now, ten or more years later, far away from her home or even any thought of having a home, she again touched the feeling from that long ago day, being alone but not lonely, of being solitary yet sufficient.

She bit her lower lip hard and blinked her eyes. There was such wistfulness and longing in his voice. Oh, she was going to give him back his eyes, or the next best thing, if it took her the rest of her life to do it.

Sentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.

Oscar Hammerstein II

Cry For Those Who Cares For You And Not For Them Those Who Makes You Cry

Jay Patel

If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.

You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart - & here are the flowers.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

When you are deeply in love,. even the smallest thing can hurt u like hell and break u into pieces...

You cynical shit," he told himself. Then he started to weep."Don't be so fucking sentimental," Crake used to tell him. But why not? Why shouldn't he be sentimental? It wasn't as if there was anyone around to question his

Margaret Atwood

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.

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.

Jean Rhys

You mustn’t throw them away. Let me have them.

Fine Things are reservoirs for the heart.

My favorite thing you do is stop me in the middle of whatever I'm doing to tell me you love me.

Only little boys and old men sneer at love.

Louis Auchincloss

All kinds of people read poetry: revolutionaries, scholars, sentimentalists etc. But above all else, lovers read poetry. Why? Because we fell in love. And then we fell in love with love.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

As we get older, it matters less where you are and more who you're with.

At the end of the day, I just want to sit with someone I love and chat about what matters and even what doesn’t.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Shannon L. Alder

You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illuminate your way.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

There is nothing like young love. It comes at a time before the heart knows to protect itself, when everything important is raw and exposed—the perfect environment for a soul-sucking, heart-crushing burst.

Alessandra Torre

I want to take all our best moments, put them in a jar, and take them out like cookies and savor each one of them forever.

My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign.I’m just not ready for anybody else to move in yet.

I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.

While she could hardly fathom what had just happened to her that night, she reached some conclusions before she fell asleep, certain things now made perfect sense; Moon River didn’t sound so syrupy, mistletoe wasn’t such a bad idea, and perhaps dating was not such a frivolous waste of time after all.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.

E.A. Bucchianeri

I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart.