Quotes about Sentiment
He kissed the handkerchief, inhaled its perfume, put it over his heart, against his flesh in the daytime, and at night went to sleep with it on his lips. I feel her whole soul in it! he exclaimed. The handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply dropped it from his pocket.
- Victor Hugo
She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what she thought of as unforgettable could ever be forgotten. Finally, of course, she did as he asked, but without enthusiasm. The notebooks showed it: they had many empty pages, and the entries were fragmentary.
- Milan Kundera
Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.
- Herman Melville
Starbuck was no crusaders after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions.
- Herman Melville
Freedom is a sentiment associated with the youth. It is rebellion. It is what you feel at that age, and it is very important.
- Zoya Akhtar
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
- Barack Obama
Chicago, a town that's accustomed to its racial wounds and prides itself on a certain lack of sentiment.
- Barack Obama
How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?
- Barack Obama
Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.
- Dolly Parton
Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.
- Thomas Merton
First poems! They must be written on casual scraps of faded paper, interspersed here and there with withered flowers, or a lock of blond hair, or a discolored piece of ribbon, and the trace of a tear must still be visible in several places ... But first poems that are printed, in livid black and white, on dreadfully smooth paper are poems that have lost the finest points of their sweet, virginal charm, and now arouse a ghastly feeling of distaste in the author.
- Heinrich Heine
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
- GK Chesterton