To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.
I love life too much to be bitter.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
Sentimentality is a false sense of self.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.