That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes a blank, unreadable mask.

Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.

I think that all the silence is worse than all the violence,Fear is such a weak emotion that's why I despise it.

Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; 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 inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.

Social justice warriors who are fond of governing by hashtag like to say that silence is violence. And we know that because it rhymes.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling. p.903