S Quotes
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“Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat. The whole world becomes topsy-survy if you impose moralities that were evolved within human society on what a blowfly or what a parasite does... there are lots of emotions you can deduce from an animal's behaviour that are correct, but when you start saying it's feeling guilty or thinking or a loved one or mourning, you must be very careful of those feelings.”
“Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.”
Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence
“Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Meredith
“Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.”
“Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.”
“Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present. It isn't. Or wasn't. Nostalgics want to cuddle the past like a puppy. But the past has bloody teeth and bad breath. I look into its mouth like a sorrowing dentist.”
“Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.”
“Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.”
“Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.”
“Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.”
Source: Lud-in-the-Mist
“Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.”
“Sentimentality is like religion and it demands a spiritual sufferance. It comes from frightened people.”
Source: faded yellow by the winter
“Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.”
“Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.”
“Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.”
“Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.”
“Sentimentality is unearned emotion.”
“Sentimentality often grew fangs and bit a person in the rump.”
Source: Throne of the Fallen
“Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were unavailable, so fiction became a medium for authors to appeal to audiences for change.”
Source: HOMESPUN GOSPEL
“Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.”
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.”
“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.”
“Sentimentally and in the soul it went on for ages, it still goes on, it goes on and on.”
Source: The Green Knight
“Sentiments can penetrate regions of the psyche which could otherwise be impenetrable even with a million facts.”
Source: Aşkanjali: The Sufi Sermon
“Sentiments, sapience and sentience speak the same tongue no matter the geography.”
Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“Sentiments speak louder than language.”
Source: Karadeniz Chronicle: The Novel
“Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.”
Source: We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism
“Sentimentul continuității vieții se bazează pe neînsemnate impresii corporale. Banalitățile vieții cotidiene constituie o armură pentru suflet.”
Source: Under Western Eyes
“Sentimos la necesidad de apoyarnos en algo permanente, en algo que nunca pueda fallarnos, en una realidad, en una verdad absoluta e imperecedera. Sí, inevitablemente nos volvemos hacia Dios; porque este sentimiento religioso es por naturaleza tan puro, tan delicioso para el alma que lo experimenta, que nos compensa de todas las demás pérdidas.”
Source: Brave New World
“Sentindo-se desde algum tempo indisposto e melancólico, principalmente depois que Odette apresentara Forcheville aos Verdurin, desejaria ir descansar um pouco no campo. Mas não teria coragem de deixar Paris um único dia enquanto Odette ali estivesse. A atmosfera estava quente; eram os mais belos dias de primavera. E muito embora atravessasse uma cidade pétrea para meter-se nalgum recinto fechado, o que sempre tinha diante dos olhos era um parque que possuía perto de Combray, onde, desde as quatro horas, antes de chegar à horta de aspargos, graças ao vento que sopra dos campos de Méséglise, se podia, debaixo de uma latada, gozar de tanta frescura como à beira do tanque bordado de miosótis e palmas-santa-rita, e onde, quando ele jantava, corriam em torno da mesa, afestoados pelo jardineiro, os ramos de groselhas e rosas.”
Source: Swann’s Way
“Sentinel meeting tonight,” Ria told her. “At Lucas's place.” “Time?” ... “Seven. Sascha's doing dinner.” “God save us all.” Sascha had decided she liked cooking. Unfortunately, cooking didn't like her back.”
Source: Branded by Fire
“Sentinel, you are always the most beautiful woman in the room, irrespective of what you're wearing. And most especially and preferably when you're wearing nothing at all.”
Source: Biting Bad
“Sentinels of trees
breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh
As their mighty arms reach to the stars
we join in their quest for Helios’s mighty power
Like sentinels, we seek our place
in the forest of nature’s gentle breath”
Source: Twilight Zone Encounters
“Sentir cierta incomodidad es parte de la experiencia de leer un libro; hay mucha más pedagogía en la inquietud que en el alivio. Podemos hacer pasar por el quirófano a toda la literatura del pasado para someterla a una cirugía estética, pero entonces dejará de explicarnos el mundo.”
Source: El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
“Sentir la necesidad de convencer a los demás de que uno tiene razón es algo que procede de la religión. Yo simplemente me contento con saber que tengo razón, aunque los demás no lo sepan.”
Source: The Terminal Experiment
“Sentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings.”
“Sentir no era el seu verb preferit.”
Source: L'estiu que comença
“Sentir tudo de todas as maneiras; saber pensar com as emoções e sentir com o pensamento; não desejar muito senão com a imaginação; sofrer com coquetterie; ver claro para escrever justo; conhecer-se com fingimento e táctica, naturalizar-se diferente e com todos os documentos; em suma, usar por dentro todas as sensações, descansando-as até Deus; mas embrulhar de novo e repor na montra com aquele caixeiro que de aqui estou vendo com as latas pequenas da graxa da nova marca.”
Source: Livro do Desassossego I
“Sentirse completamente solo en el mundo, abandonado de repente por todos, abatido por el peso de una vergüenza desconocida o de alguna condena silenciosa es algo más pavoroso y misterioso que la muerte.”
Source: El piloto ciego
“Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que está como participación en algo noble.”
Source: Aprender a aprender
“Sentirse importante es un vicio, no una virtud, no importa lo escondido que esté como participación en algo noble.”
Source: Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“Sentirse solo a pesar de tener un hogar al que regresar, a pesar de ser amado, puede que en eso consistía ser joven”
“Sentirsi solo è un piacere che spaventa.”
Source: Bestie. Prose interpretate da Fernando Marchiori
“Sentivamo l’odore dell’estate e ci sembrava che il tempo non passasse mai, noi ci siamo goduti quel raggio di felicità che ci è stato donato senza un sospiro.”
Source: La Magiara
“Sentivo che la mamma ed io possedevamo il segreto di una giovinezza eterna: oggi o tra molti anni le stesse cose ci avrebbero procurato gioia ed entusiasmo, avremmo superato il tempo, e anche il decadimento fisico, affidate a piaceri che mio padre non aveva conosciuto. [...] La mamma era stato il solo ponte che mio padre avesse avuto con la poetica verità della vita. Era rimasta accanto a lui, per anni, invitandolo a seguirla. Adesso se ne era andata e lui era solo.
Da "Dalla parte di lei”
“Sentivo che non ero, non ero mai stato e non sarei mai stato una parte vivente di questo mondo straordinariamente solido e profondamente significativo che mi circonda.”
Source: A Separate Peace
“Sentivo sempre più il bisogno di raccogliere e conservare antichi volumi, e d’incaricare scrivani coscienziosi di trarne nuove copie. Nobile compito; non meno urgente - pensavo - dell’aiuto ai veterani o dei sussidi alle famiglie prolifiche e disagiate; qualche guerra, dicevo a me stesso, la miseria che la segue, un periodo di volgarità e d’incultura sotto un cattivo principe basterebbero a far perire per sempre i pensieri pervenuti fino a noi mediante quei fragili oggetti di pergamena e d’inchiostro. Ogni uomo così fortunato da beneficiare, più o meno, di quei legati di cultura, mi sembrava responsabile verso tutto il genere umano.”
Source: Memoirs of Hadrian
“Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato battaglia. E se fra voi c'è qualcuno che si sente abbastanza matto da voler diventare scrittore, gli consiglio va' avanti, sputa in un occhio al sole, schiaccia quei tasti, è la migliore pazzia che possa esserci, i secoli chiedono aiuto, la specie aspira spasmodicamente alla luce, e all'azzardo e alle risate. Regalateglieli. Ci sono abbastanza parole per noi tutti.”
“Sento un urlo alle mie spalle, qualcuno piange. Mi giro di scatto ma non vedo nessuno. Mi manca l’aria…”
Source: Bisbigliando - Sussurri di mezzanotte