sentiment

Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical.

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!

No...No...We don't walk away but when we're holding on to something precious we run. We run away. We run as fast as we can.

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?

Religion is not a book, it is a neurological sentiment.

From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment.

Sentiment 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.

The things we place greatest value upon are prioritised by their context in our lives.

Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.

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.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.