Top 194 Sentimentality Quotes & Sayings

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

Capitalism doesn't care about sentimentality.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.

I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or 'meta', or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

Sentimentality is a false sense of self.

They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.

Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

From Romare Bearden I learned that the fullness and richness of everyday life can be rendered without compromise or sentimentality.

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Sentimentality works by our seeing only what we want to see.

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

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.

I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.

I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.

Love scenes are extremely difficult. You're always within a millimeter of sentimentality and 'yuck.'

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality.

To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind of a clean access to it in one way. It's also a war that represents a failure for the United States. Many people came back feeling like they never wanted to talk about it again. And so we developed a national amnesia.

I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

A certain check to the sentimentality and commercialism of Christmas is the cluster of bereavements that often arrives towards the end of the year.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

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

I like the sentimentality of 'Miracle on 34th Street' and all those movies, and there actually is a tradition of Christmas comedies, too.

I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.