#sentimental

Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#love #lust #only #sentimentality #struggle

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. ↗

— Robert Frank

#am #conscious #i #i always #i am

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#false #feeling #intolerable #sentimentality

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#feelings #i #i do #lot #people

I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#coffee #dumped #feeling #gently #given

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

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#being #ceremonial #earlier #gay #gay marriage