Sentimental Quotes - Page 9

• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

  Old Tom Morris

  Love, Moving, Creativity

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• Nobody's favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody's favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books?

  Mitch Albom

  Song, Book, Dark

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• I like what I see when I look in the mirror. If I get sentimental, I look and say, "Uh. It's a bad day. They beat up on me," this, that, and the other thing. But ya know? We've spent one billion trying to convince people to not smoke. It's been phenomenally successful. We've probably saved millions of lives. There aren't many people that have done that. So, you know, when I get to heaven, I'm not sure I'm gonna stand for an interview. I'm going right in.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Bad Day, Successful, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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 was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

  Christian Boltanski

  Thinking, Feelings, Lucky

  "To die is very strang". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. March 12, 2014.

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• I don't feel sentimental about the past, but I can't help noticing how hard it has become to keep a grip on anything. Maybe it's the totalizing impact of corporate culture, maybe it's the atomizing impact of technology.

  Dana Spiotta

  Past, Technology, Impact

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think, when I'm writing, I have a more clinical view than I do when I'm reading. I like pretending to be God and basically determining the fate of my characters. But as a reader, I'm a sucker. I'm very sentimental. I get upset when people that I like die. And yet I have killed off characters in my books quite heartlessly, and sometimes found that readers were very upset by it.

  Jay McInerney

  Reading, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that a lot of dystopian literature tends to be really moralizing and just doesn't tend to give credence to the importance of the sentimental. Maybe it says, "We need love in this world," but it's always this tough, strong statement.

  How to Dress Well

  Strong, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.

  Will Sheff

  Thinking, Feelings, Nostalgia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

  Sandra Bullock

  Birthday, Age, Doe

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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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• I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

  Kenny Chesney

  Love You, Drunk, Guy

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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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• We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

  John Yau

  Way, Emotion, Language

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• 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

  Past, Practice, Cold

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• It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type."

  Jodi Sweetin

  Mom, Night, Talking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.

  Paul Bourget

  Idols, Intellectual, Delight

  Paul Bourget (1908). “Cosmopolis: Crowned by the French Academy”

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• The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

  Alberto Manguel

  Suicide, Reading, Reader

  Alberto Manguel (2010). “A Reader on Reading”, p.153, Yale University Press

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• The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Past, Mind, Weakness

  Wyndham Lewis (1914). “Blast”, Kraus Reprint Corp.

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• A lot of times in cinema today the women are overly sentimental, so I constantly try to do the opposite. I like strident women.

  Keira Knightley

  Opposites, Trying, Cinema

  Allure magazine, October 2007.

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• Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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• 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.

  Jean Gebser

  Condescension And, Facts, Harmony

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Action, Devotion, Bhakti

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