Quotes About Sentiment

They may be nothing more than scraps of paper, but they capture something profound. Light and wind and air, the tenderness or joy of the photographer, the bashfulness or pleasure of the subject. You have to guard these things forever in your heart. That's why photographs are taken in the first place.

If you read a novel to the end, then it's over. I would never want to do something as wasteful as that. I'd much rather keep it here with me, safe and sound, forever.

Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

and not for the first time she felt a reassuring shiver of dislike for him.

As Jack listened at the top of the stairs, a tear welled in his eye, and rolled very slowly down his cheek. 8

I said before that my skin was "on fire" with the pain but being confronted so soon after that sentiment with the actual experience, I admit that other thing was nothing like my skin actually being on fire.

What you say reflects how you feel about the world.

You know that I've always had a very special feeling towards you; you

Avec un naturel éprouvé, elle passa en quelques instants de l'émotion à la reconnaissance, de la reconnaissance à la tendresse, de la tendresse au désir.

Je crois que la vraie différence avec les bêtes, poursuivit le juge, ce n'est pas la fidélité. Le trait le plus proprement humain et qui leur fait complétement défaut, c'est un autre sentiment, que vous avez de reste. - Lequel ? - L'orgueil.

Il était plein d'un sentiment de puissance qui, après tout, était peut-être perceptibles par ces êtres intuitifs que sont les femmes.

Devenu chant, le cri n'est plus l'expression spontanée, éphémère et solitaire, d'un sentiment particulier; il prend langue avec l'universel.

Loving books is a good thing. A solid thing. Having a big collection of good ones is important, or at least it seemed that way on every single day until you moved, and then it seemed like one of the worst ideas you ever had.

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

Talking with her was like listening to a ballad on a radio station that fades in and out as you drive, sometimes clear and sentimental and tuned perfectly to the passing land, sometimes filled with static, lost, a song played too many times.

The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being synonymous with the will of God.

One can brood too much. Nostalgia can fuzz things up.

The last line of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante is faced with the vision of God Himself, is a sentiment that is still easily understandable by anyone familiar with so-called modern Italian. Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but that He is, most of all, l'amour che move il sole e l'altre stelle...'The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

As I left I heard Ramses say, 'May I remark, Papa, dat alt'ough your consideration for my sensitivities was quite unnecessary, I am not without a proper appreciation of de sentiment dat prompted it.

The man had no more romance in his soul than a codfish

In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it were a mist, cloaking the perplexities of fact. Insistence on clarity at all costs is based on sheer superstition as to the mode in which human intelligence functions. Our reasoning grasps at straws for premises and float on gossamer for deductions.

In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself.

which I remember from my human past and from longing.

They shared an image of the American Christmas--riches, reconciliations, tears, snow, success, sentiment, furs and firs, the shop windows shining like Heaven and everything good for sale.