“ No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! Sheri S. Tepper
“ Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact. H.L. Mencken
“ If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable b… Richard Hofstadter
“ For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I re… William S. Burroughs
“ 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 reall… Timothy Keller
“ I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. David Foster Wallace
“ I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about. James Rozoff
“ Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain… Christopher Hitchens
“ I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love. Charles Bukowski
“ When it seems you are having too much fun, then a switch turns on in your head and makes you think; if only there were a way to take a snapshot of this moment and place it into a mason jar next to som… A.H. Scott
“ Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration. Jean Baudrillard
“ Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' but remembers that there are things more important to him than… Jonathan Safran Foer
“ It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. Naguib Mahfouz
“ We got passes, till midnight after the parade. I met Muriel at the Biltmore at seven. Two drinks, two drugstore tuna-fish sandwiches, then a movie she wanted to see, something with Greer Garson in it.… J.D. Salinger
“ She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes. Margaret Atwood
“ In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves...The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which… Todd M. Brenneman
“ ...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well. Will Christopher Baer
“ I was firmly in the out-of-sight-out-of-mind camp, and had cogent, unflinchingly honest declarations I frequently made about losing a shared context, and sentimentalism, and the general faint hearted… Gabrielle Hamilton
“ One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind. Melina Marchetta
