Top 30 Quotes About Sentimentalism
#1. Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
D.H. Lawrence
#2. Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#3. She didn't like weepy films. She liked to
quote D. H. Lawrence : "Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself
of feelings you haven't really got." Hers were grim European films
- Antonioni, Bertolucci, Bergman - films where everybody
died or wished they had.
Janet Fitch
#4. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo
#5. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.
Margaret Sanger
#6. Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
Luther Burbank
#7. For the sentimentalism and emotionalism which have infested our country, we should substitute hard common sense. Pacific habits do not insure peace or immunity from national insult and aggression.
Douglas MacArthur
#8. I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#9. There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity ...
Luc Delahaye
#10. It is sentimentalism to assume that the teaching of life can always be fitted to the child's interests, just as it is empty formalism to force the child to parrot the formulas of adult society. Interests can be created and stimulated.
Jerome Bruner
#11. The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.
Phillips Brooks
#12. When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.
D.T. Suzuki
#13. Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying ... demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism,
Margaret Sanger
#14. Let us replace sentimentalism by realism and dare to uncover those simple and terrible laws which, be they seen or unseen, pervade and govern.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and righteousness.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.
Neville Cardus
#17. What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.
Frederick William Robertson
#18. Holy things and holy places, out of mind under the cauterizing brilliance of the summer son, reared up now as the winter sun struck from the south, casting shadows coldly upon the avenues where the people followed and went in, wearing winter hearts on their sleeves for the plucking.
William Gaddis
#19. Everybody wants you to do this thing that you've always been doing forever. That's what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different.
Alison Mosshart
#20. We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.
Margaret Thatcher
#21. Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.
Hope Mirrlees
#22. If you want this baby, then we'll learn as we go. If you don't - " He kisses me again. "Then I'll hold your hand every step of the way.
Kristen Callihan
#23. My uncle is a Southern planter. He's an undertaker in Alabama.
Fred Allen
#24. On short stories:
something glimpsed from the corner of the eye, in passing.
V.S. Pritchett
#25. The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.
Brian A. Jackson
#26. Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored ...
Sarah Kernochan
#27. Because this is our life. We met on the road; we grew to know and to love each other on the road. It's where we were meant to be for however long, and it's what we're going to do until it becomes clear that we're meant to do something else.
J.A. Redmerski
#29. Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
Peg Bracken
#30. A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
Taeyang
