Welcome to our collection of Sentimental Quotes! In the realm of emotions, sentimentality holds a special place, capturing the profound essence of love, nostalgia, and profound feelings that often remain unspoken. Whether you’re seeking the perfect words to express your love, want to reminisce about cherished moments, or simply enjoy indulging in the warm embrace of sentimentality, you’ve come to the right place. Here, we’ve curated a selection of heartfelt quotes that touch the depths of the human soul, allowing you to connect with your emotions and share them with others. Feel free to use these quotes in various creative ways – copy and paste them, overlay them on images, or adorn them with stylish fonts to make them truly your own. Explore the beauty of sentimentality as you delve into the quotes below, and may they inspire you to express your innermost feelings.
Now, without further ado, let’s dive into the world of sentimental quotes below
Part of me really wants to believe that hope is entirely available to all of us. We don’t have to embrace it. It would be sentimental and silly to say that we all need it, but it is absolutely available to all of us. Colum McCann
I’m not a very sentimental person, so you’re not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies. Cary Fukunaga
As a younger person, I was obsessed with Ray Bradbury, and I think his stories did more to shape me as a storyteller than anybody else – even though, when I read them now, a lot of them seem overly sentimental. But that’s probably the writer that I’ve thought about the most, even though I don’t necessarily like a lot of his work. Shaun Tan
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. Jean Cocteau
There was a guy called Carlos Thompson, who was I think Argentinian, and he was doing a series called ‘Sentimental Agent’. That was the very first thing that I did. It was supposed to be taking place in some exotic location, but in actual fact, it was Chertsey with a few shivering potted palms. Diana Rigg
I would hate to think I’m promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you’re taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness. Mike Mills
Nobody’s favorite movie is some dark, dysfunctional slasher story. Everybody’s favorite song is a sentimental song. So why all of a sudden is it bad to be sentimental in books? Mitch Albom
I could spend my whole life photographing circuses. They combine everything I’m interested in – they’re ironic, poetic, and corny at the same time. There’s also something about a circus that’s magical, sentimental, and almost tragic, like a Fellini film. Mary Ellen Mark
I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. Berkeley Breathed
Most crime fiction, no matter how ‘hard-boiled’ or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. John Banville
Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. Krist Novoselic
Sentimental is not bad, but it’s probably the most likely to go awry. It’s the hardest to do and not have it end up being ‘Forrest Gump’ or something. Maudlin – I just don’t want it to be maudlin. Neal Brennan
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. James Taylor
Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to be deeply self-critical. The problem arises when loyalty to India gets mixed up with loyalty to the government of the day. Barkha Dutt
I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They’re dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there’s something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey’s or Destiny’s Child’s any day. Sufjan Stevens
I love jazz music and sad music. I’m a sentimental guy. I’m a romantic guy. Fred Durst
It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue – but I would argue it nevertheless – that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music – both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing – is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another. A. N. Wilson
I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it’s sentimental – and Disney is sentimental. It’s subtle and it’s low-key and it’s just a sweet reminder of sweetness. Kidada Jones
In matters of state, one has to be full of sentiments, but one can never be sentimental. Manmohan Singh
I may seem a tough guy, but I’m also very sentimental. Alvin Leung
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental. Thomas Huxley
I don’t want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people’s feelings a lot of the time. Andrew Motion
The notion that the ‘leader’ has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise – if you’d be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut – that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. Tom Stoppard
My books are all fantastically sentimental. Chuck Palahniuk
Even my aunt Joan, hopelessly sentimental about every member of our family, admitted that I was hideous. Sister Parish
I’m a Republican, but I like the Queen. Like everyone else, I’m sentimental about the Queen. Stephen Frears
I don’t know if I like being the sentimental favorite. John Elway
I have so many pieces that once belonged to my mom and both of my grandmothers. All of these pieces are very sentimental, and I love to wear them. I also have many pieces from my father that I probably cherish the most. I love wearing his dress shirts. Kourtney Kardashian
The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such. H. P. Lovecraft
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather’s shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens. Scott Turow
When I’m writing good music and I’m caffeinated, I attribute all my success to the coffee, get really sentimental about the EDM scene and tweet a lot. Porter Robinson
I’m for conservation, but it’s mostly a con. That’s the trouble. It’s sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre. Peter Beard
On the set I make jokes I can’t get too involved, or it turns into sentimental soup. I try to keep it light. Michael Haneke
I’m not a sentimental guy. Gene Hackman
I was a teacher most of my life, which I loved. I had a very happy working life, and when I retired, I thought I must do something, and I’ve always read a lot of fiction – you learn so much from fiction. My sentimental education came mostly from fiction, I should say, so I thought I’d try. Anita Brookner
I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I’m set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don’t hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental. Emraan Hashmi
Today, I defined ‘sentimental’ to myself as a feeling about the idea of a feeling. Sheila Heti
I love ‘Love Actually.’ ‘Love Actually,’ there’s, like, nine stories in that movie. Three of them are good. But watching that movie, I get emotional, I get choked up, my wife makes fun of me. I don’t know if as you get older you get sappier and sentimental. Ike Barinholtz
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. Frank Herbert
I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I’m feeling sentimental, I’ll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. Mo Rocca
Some kind of clutter is difficult – letting go of things with sentimental value, sifting through papers – but some clutter I find very refreshing to clear. I drive my daughters nuts because I’m always wandering into their rooms to clear clutter. Gretchen Rubin
In film, it’s very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion. Ridley Scott
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. Leo Buscaglia
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental. Andrew Motion
I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can’t find the time, there are people who’ve never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous. David Nicholls
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them. Octavio Paz
I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don’t get sentimental. I think we’re all afraid to reveal our hearts. It’s not at all in fashion. Paul Simon
It’s an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. Winona Ryder
I have a sentimental feeling for my very first cover I was on – it was ‘Bazaar’ Magazine. Carol Alt
Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. Margaret Anderson
The job of the poet is to render the world – to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do. Mark Van Doren
One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother’s engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It’s a Victorian-style setting that’s closed in the back, so it doesn’t sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant. Georgina Chapman
In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate. Victor Vasarely
I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next. Issey Miyake
I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines. Susan Orlean
I remember how much – when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of ‘Peter Pan.’ I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy. Maurice Sendak
I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs. Martin Parr
I’m sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby’s unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life.’ But Valentine’s Day leaves me cold. Nancy Gibbs
I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn’t necessarily be the person who makes it. Grimes
The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me. Gary Clark, Jr.
Everything gets to me. I’m very sentimental. Cornelia Funke
A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses. Irving Babbitt
I’m incredibly sentimental, although I’m not one of those people who doesn’t chuck anything out; I don’t keep used tea bags – just special mementos. Phillip Schofield
It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by – how can I put it? – the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be ‘off the scale as sentimental.’ Andrew Lloyd Webber
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It’s absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. Patrick Stewart
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Flannery O’Connor
I think probably I’m quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I’m very embarrassed by sentiment. I’m very embarrassed by corniness. David Nicholls
What a man calls his ‘conscience’ is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love. Helen Rowland
It’s not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. Mary Astor
The thing with Disney songs is they’re very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know – there’s a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn’t really exist any more. Jarvis Cocker
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They’re the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can’t move up, and they’re desperate not to move down. Tracey Ullman
I think the philosophy that you have to have if you travel frequently is, stuff is just stuff. Even if it has some sentimental or family connection, if you lose it in the world, it’s still just a thing, and I think if you don’t have that attitude, you will get incredibly stressed out and not enjoy your travels. Leila Janah
My dad’s side of the family had lots of artists and musicians. There’s an emotional, quite sentimental quality to Slavic culture. It’s very open, it loves art, it loves music, it loves literature. It’s very warm, it’s very up, it’s very down. I would celebrate that. Nick Clegg
I love Christmas. I’m really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time. Michael Buble
I always say that I don’t want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn’t be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. Robert Frank
I was living out on Long Island in Baldwin, New York when Hurricane Sandy hit. With the storm surge, the whole first floor of our house was under about three feet of water. We lost a lot of valuable stuff – sentimental stuff like pictures and Christmas ornaments. Nobody expected flooding that bad. Chris Weidman
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. Thomas Kinkade
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ. Stanley Hauerwas
I think that in some cases, I’ve made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. Gus Van Sant
The sentimental view of anything is apt to be ridiculous, but I feel that I have been unusually sensitive to the issue of place since I was a little boy. James Howard Kunstler
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits. Richard Foreman
I don’t think it’s good to be sentimental, so I try not to be. Chrissie Hynde
I’m a sentimental guy. Fred Durst
In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from. Homaro Cantu
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I’d say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love. Jess Walter
I mean, I think I’m pretty sentimental. Gus Van Sant
Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. Norman Mailer
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental. Don Adams
Women in Afghanistan do not ask the United States to stay for the simple or sentimental reason of safeguarding their rights. They are the first ones to say that this is not enough of a reason for the world’s remaining superpower to remain in their country. Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow. Kali Uchis
I like kind of varied songs, not just the same song all the time. And I thought things like ‘Too Sentimental’ is a different thing for us, but it works and we love the way they all came out. There’s definitely varied songs on there. Graham Russell
I feel unabashedly Indian, and this means that not just do I jump to my feet and sing along with the national anthem, it also makes me inexplicably sentimental, proud and teary-eyed. Barkha Dutt
I am not a sentimental person. Jack Kevorkian
That’s the rub about ‘Community’ – for all the high-concept cleverness, it really comes down to vulgar humanism, the dumbest kind of sentimental identification. We watch it because we like these people and we miss them when they don’t show up. They become part of the stories we tell ourselves. Rob Sheffield
I swear to God, like, every day, the majority of my day is sentimental. Noah Centineo
My search is always to find ways to chronicle, to share and to document stories about people, just everyday people. Stories that offer transformation, that lean into transcendence, but that are never sentimental, that never look away from the darkest things about us. Chris Abani
I’m not terribly sentimental. Katherine Heigl
Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me… as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it’s one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you’re gay. Gus Van Sant
‘Little Women’ has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it’s sentimental, gooey stuff. Gillian Armstrong