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Quotes About Sentiment

I didn't mind what she called me, what anybody called me. But this was the room I had to live in. It was all I had in the way of a home. In it was everything that was mine, that had any association for me, any past, anything that took the place of a family. Not much: a few books, pictures, radio, chessmen, old letters, stuff like that. Nothing. Such as they were, they had all my memories.
~ Raymond Chandler
Woolf disagrees, saying of the home, "For there we sit surrounded by objects which enforce the memories of our own experience.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I've been turning over in my mind the question of nostalgia, and whether I suffer from it. I certainly don't get soggy at the memory of some childhood knickknack; nor do I want to deceive myself sentimentally about something that wasn't even true at the time - love of the old school, and so on. But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions - and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives - then I plead guilty.
~ Julian Barnes
But if nostalgia means the powerful recollection of strong emotions—and a regret that such feelings are no longer present in our lives—then I plead guilty.
~ Julian Barnes
Would you rather tear up your own expressions of love, or the ones you had received?
~ Julian Barnes
an?msanan hazlar kadar, an?msanan ac?lar konusunda da nostaljik olmak mümkün
~ Julian Barnes
But she would never forget Brodick... or the spontaneous kiss he'd given her that had meant nothing to him and everything to her.
~ Julie Garwood
Everyone there, having watched this demonic soul die, was immersed in deep sentiment, each in their own. Only the eye of the camera sitting there on the wall kept on watching. Void of all feeling, retaining perfect objectivity, it continued recording the cells in Kashiwada's body as they passed on from this world.
~ K?ji Suzuki
Roland was brave an romantic, and his speech imploring Lucinda to flee with him had filled Bronwyn's eyes with tears. I wish I knew a Roland. During her unpleasant season, she'd come to realise that the world was woefully short of Rolands.
~ Karen Hawkins
They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I'd left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged by love—as who amongst us is not)
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Hathos," I offered finally and then thoughtfully provided the definition. "The pleasure you get from hating something.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I wasn't happy, exactly, but I was remembering how happiness felt.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
They only remembered the good times
~ Karin Slaughter
The heart of a man is a wonderful thing, especially when it is carried in his wallet.
~ Karl Marx
Religion is the moan of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, as it is the spirit of spiritless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
~ Karl Marx
Feuerbach consequently does not see that the 'religious sentiment' is itself a social product, and that the abstract individual that he analyses belongs in reality to a particular social form.
~ Karl Marx
Julia's vocabulary was chock-full of strangely archaic words - spiffing, crumbs, jeepers - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.
~ Kate Atkinson
Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them.
~ William Shakespeare
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
~ Bill Veeck
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
~ Thomas Reed
Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.
~ Delphine de Girardin
Man is the will, and woman the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder, and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him.
~ Alexander Smith