Top 150 Best Sentimental Quotes & Sayings 2023

Sentimental Quotes

This is love: to fly towards a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. – Rumi

Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there? – Richard Bach

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. – Judy Garland

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make. – Paul McCartney

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. – Emily Bronte

Each moment of a happy lover’s hour is worth an age of dull and common life. – Aphra Behn

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. – Sarah Bernhardt

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. – David Viscott

Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing. – Torquato Tasso

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. – Zelda Fitzgerald

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. – Henri Nouwen

A hug is like a boomerang – you get it back right away. – Bil Keane

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me. – Jim Valvano

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. – George MacDonald

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. – Anne Roiphe

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.  – Saint Augustine

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I love everything that’s old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine. – Oliver Goldsmith

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If we’re destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there’s got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. – Ellen DeGeneres

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world. – Jack Layton

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. – Jean de la Bruyere

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. – Abraham Lincoln

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love. – William Blake

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn’t come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. – Douglas Horton

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. – A. A. Milne

 Sentimental Quotes And Sayings

I like to rock and roll, but I’m a mushy guy, too. I want to be the guy that all the girls love and all the guys want to hang out with.

– Kenny Chesney

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that’s what country music is. It’s not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

– Kenny Chesney

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

– John L. Lewis

I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.

– Humphrey Bogart

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

– Voltaire

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

– Ellen DeGeneres

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

– Herodotus

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

– Jennifer Aniston

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

– Jimi Hendrix

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

– Sigmund Freud

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

– Love: Ten Poems , Pablo Neruda

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

– James Madison

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead.

– William Butler Yeats

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

– Larry King

He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness – the sense that is where we really belong.

– The Heart of the Matter , Graham Greene

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

– Octavio Paz

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

– Judy Garland

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

– William Shakespeare

 Sentimental Quotes Love

“There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Love is like an earthquake – unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.”

– Anonymous

“My Heart Was Taken By You, Broken By You And Now, Is In Pieces Because Of You”

“True love never dies as we see in our eyes, only when we let go that we can truly say goodbye. “

“How can I forget you when you’re always on my mind? How can I not want you when you’re all I want inside? How can I let you go when I can’t see us apart? How can I not love you when you control my heart?”

“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends” – Anonymous

“Cry as I may these tears won’t wash you away” – Anonymous

“Listen to your heart before you tell him goodbye” – Anonymous

“We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us” – Anonymous

“Tears are words the hard can’t express” – Anonymous

“The hardest to do is waking up without you.” – Anonymous

 Sentimental Quotes Life

“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.”-

Lucan

“Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.”

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?”- Bob Marley

“The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.” – Louis E. Boone

“Have you ever felt so alone and nothing makes sense? Well that’s how I feel right now…I feel like I’m facing everything myself, with nothing but tears and a fake smile…”- Anonymous

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: “It might have been!” – John Greenleaf Whittier

 Sentimental Quotes On Friendship

“Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them.” – a Greek proverb

“I myself am the only friend I have.” – Terence

“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”- Carl Jung

“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.” – Psalms, Bible

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” – Malcolm X

“Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.” – Gertrude Stein

“Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.” – Muriel Spark

“If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, do not accept, as you may lose a friend.” – Saint Augustine

“Sometimes life is hard to bear when a friend is just not there.” – Unknown

“Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” – Unknown

“You can gain a friend in a year but lose a friend in a minute.” – Unknown