Quotes for All
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour … Read more
There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions – all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion – pleasantness and sentimentality. Gabrielle Roth
Yes, I am my brother’s keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the higher duty I owe myself. What would you think me if I were capable of seating myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the … Read more
I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a… as something one falls in. Erich Fromm
I was not exploiting any real individual’s story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality. Emma Donoghue
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. Ellen Glasgow
If spirituality is not religion or cynicism or sentimentality or narcissism, then what is it?… we can confidently say… that spirituality is fearlessness. It is a way of looking boldly at this life we have been given, here, now, on earth, as this human being. Elizabeth Lesser
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey’s book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory’s pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations … Read more
Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning – to lie awake and cry in the morning-. Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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