Quotes About Sentiment

nostalgia has nothing to do with aesthetics, it's not even connected to happy memories. We feel nostalgia for a place simply because we've lived there; whether we lived well or badly scarcely matters.

Only a sentimental being would care about such everyday things—things used and discarded by the humans of their respective eras without thought, yet kept and preserved by an immortal who never forgot them. An immortal who loved and cared for them, dusting them off for an eternity, keeping their dead spirits as alive as he—stuck in their immortal tomb never to find the rest everything must eventually seek. Time had no meaning in this cavern of infinite age.

It was her street, her neighborhood, her life. She knew that someday in the future it would not be hers anymore. But she would remember it, she would treasure it, she would miss it. She would hold it in her heart. She knew that someday she would look back at this very moment and miss it....Never had life seemed more beautiful and more sad.

en el fondo del abismo se encuentran la desesperación sentimental y volitiva y el escepticismo ra cional frente a frente, y se abrazan como hermanos. Y

El hombre, dicen, es un animal racional. No sé por qué no se haya dicho que es un animal afectivo o sentimental. Y acaso lo que de los demás animales le diferencia sea más el sentimiento que no la razón. Más veces he visto razonar a un gato que no reír o llorar. Acaso llore o ría por dentro, pero por dentro acaso también el cangrejo resuelva ecuaciones de segundo grado

The reason we have strong emotions is because we care. If we didn't care, our emotions wouldn't be a problem.

I wanted to put as much love and care into the taking apart of my wonderful mum's home as had been poured into bringing it all together in the first place?

Your heart doesn't flutter like that of a fourteen-year-old girl's when you aren't fourteen anymore.

It was impossible for the human mind to suspect that it was itself the sole creator of the divine world. It found the divine world before it; it found it as history, as tradition, as a sentiment, as a habit of thought; and it necessarily made it the object of its loftiest speculations. Thus was born metaphysics, and thus were developed and perfected the divine ideas, the basis of Spiritualism.

flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick.

It's not that you don't understand, it's that you don't like it.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

That is why spiritual progress is slow: not because no one will tell us the secrets, but because we ourselves must overcome sentiment and fear before we can grasp it.

Força sovint el repte és el silenci, l'espai incert que va de vers a vers, de pregunta a pregunta. Potser el que marca el ritme és el desig, però el desig tan aviat sotmet com allibera, i mai no concedeix treves al sentiment o a l'esperança.

Perhaps all we want from reading is to return to that age when we could hold a book and cry, to that time between childhood and adolescence, the sweetest era of our lives.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

Si c'est votre façon d'aimer, je vous prie de me haïr.

The history of American wars is littered with propaganda, falsehoods, a compliant media, the manipulation of patriotic sentiment—everything we've seen recently, we've seen before. Time and again.

I think, to be missed is a gift. To be remembered an even bigger one.

premier firm in Seattle. Seeing his pre-teen scrawl should have made him smile at his young self.

You're already seared in my memory, kiska," he murmurs. "No picture necessary.

Now the house is a museum of everything she can't let go

Nostalgia is basically the ability to forget the things that sucked.