Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.
A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't.
Love is sentimental measles.
For me sport was a religion. . . with religious sentiment.
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version. . . When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs. "
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
I'm not a sentimental guy.
To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.
It is no longer the sexual which is indecent, it is the sentimental.
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.
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.