What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.
D.H. LawrenceTags: sex poets sentiment desire d-h-lawrence lady-chatterley-s-lover
The West's post-Holocaust pledge that genocide would never again be tolerated proved to be hollow, and for all the fine sentiments inspired by the memory of Auschwitz, the problem remains that denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
Philip GourevitchTags: evil apathy indifference good action tolerance sentiment genocide holocaust talk sudan hitler rwanda west hollow auschewitz south-sudan
If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
Christopher IsherwoodTags: inspirational sentiment humanity-and-society
Love is not an idea, not a feeling, not a sensation, not a sentiment, not a passion, not even an emotion. It is becoming and being not... Ultimate nothingness! Complete self-annihilation!
Raheel FarooqTags: love emotion sentiment feeling idea nothingness annihilation
Has it ever happened to you," Léon went on, "to come across some vague idea of one's own in a book, some dim image that comes to you from afar, and as the completest expression of your own slightest sentiment?
Gustave FlaubertSentiment has never been unpopular except with a few sick persons who are made sicker by the sight of a child, a glimpse of a wedding, or the thought of a happy home.
Oscar Hammerstein IITags: love home child sentiment sentimental
Life is more fragile and precious than I can comprehend, but believe me, I'm trying.
John O'CallaghanTags: life truth love faith mind hope live thought think believe understanding brain sentiment precious young fragile ponder consider
For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.
Ian FlemingTags: sex emotion sentiment desire neutrality coldness
I'm convinced that whatever contains human emotions is composed of the most fragile material, for it can shatter unpredictably and without effort. And yet it is a resilient marvel as well, able to mend instantly as though never affected.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: emotions sentiment feelings mood richelle richelle-goodrich
Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you.
Ted TallyTags: life decisions sentiment
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