#sentimental

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

— Norman Mailer

#promiscuity #sentiment #sentimentality #those #who

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

— Graham Greene

#sentiment #sentimentality #share

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#i #prefer #realist #really #romantic

I am not a sentimental person. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#i #i am #person #sentimental

What a man calls his "conscience" is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#after #calls #conscience #follows #his

I'm not a sentimental guy. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#i #sentimental

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... ↗

— Julie Otsuka

#thought-provoking #thought-provoking

Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#marriage #sentimentality #tim-keller #truth #love

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. ↗

— Mark Van Doren

#ever #feelings #job #loss #only

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#best #february #lavish #level #move