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Quotes About Pathetic

The human psyche is pathetic," I say—I declaim—to my psychopharmacologist. "It's what we have, Miss Jefferson," he replies, "it's what we have.
~ Margo Jefferson
The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .
~ Italo Svevo
Bright and wild like fire. Ha. Friendless and alone like a pathetic loser was more like it.
~ Unknown
Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."
~ Dylan Moran
Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was pathetic really, the amount of possibilities she had squandered.
~ Matt Haig
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.
~ Melina Marchetta
You always seem so in control." "And you don't?" He laughed, but somehow not humorously. There was a darkness in his eyes that had nothing to do with color. "I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not. Sometimes I think that this life is shit. I mean, don't you find it pathetic?
~ Melina Marchetta
Sadness is pathetically limited to the range of thirst, it is just a sip of emotion, tightly buckled to a frown, quenchable.
~ Miranda July
All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.
~ Mordecai Richler
The wolf had not only ridden her into damn near unconsciousness, he'd given her the best orgasms of her life. And that was plain embarrassing. Her best sex had been with a wolf. Pathetic. Except her body was telling her to shut up and wallow. 'Cause this felt gooooood. Good enough that she might even want to repeat it.
~ Nalini Singh
I stay kind to my friends and in the corner of my heart I'm always quietly thinking that 'kindness to others always comes back to oneself,' so I'm really a pathetic man.
~ Osamu Dazai
Dahmer was pathetic and incredibly selfish as he began the process of trying to find sexual pleasure and companionate happiness with another man, only to discover that what he really wanted was a completely incapacitated and compliant sexual partner who fit the very specific body type that he deemed perfect.
~ Unknown