Sentimentality Quotes

• Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Struggle
  • For Him

• You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Courage
  • Forgive
  • Sentimentality

• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Sins

• The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Kid
  • Seriously
  • Comics

• Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Better
  • Honest
  • Hatred

• It is not lust that disunites, dissolves and annihilates. It is rather the mesmerizing complications of sentimentality, artificial jealousies, words that inebriate and deceive, the rhetoric of parting and eternal fidelities, literary nostalgia – all the histrionics of love.

  

  Valentine de Saint-Point
  • Eternal
  • Nostalgia
  • Parting

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

  

  Norman Mailer
  • Sentimentality
  • Promiscuity

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

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Great
  • Evil
  • Spirit

• 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 Okkervil River
  • Truth
  • Dangerous
  • Nostalgia

• Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

  

  Ammon Hennacy
  • World
  • Love
  • Wisdom

• Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

  

  Anthony Malcolm Daniels
  • Political
  • Correctness
  • Sentimentality

• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Grief
  • Sadness
  • Sentimentality

• Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • Problem
  • Readers
  • Sentimentality

• The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm.

  

  Teju Cole
  • World
  • Problem
  • Evil

• Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.

  

  Eef Barzelay
  • Universe
  • Human Beings
  • Fever

• I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Emotion
  • Break
  • Spells

• 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.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Way
  • Eye
  • Knows

• I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • People
  • Writing
  • Emotional