Richelle Mead Quotes

Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

It's counterproductive. The problem with sentimentality is that it kills the emotion.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

But as I see it, the most corrupt art is the sentimental the art of orange blossoms which make pale women swoon.

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

I'm too busy to be nostalgic, which is one of the reasons to keep busy. I'm not a very sentimental person.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving.

I feel I should try to reveal. When you hit it right, you produce an emotional response in the listener that can be cathartic. When you're wrong, you're soppy, sentimental.

She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

I'm a loving drunk. I get sentimental. "I love you guys." I drunk-dial a lot.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.

There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.

Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.