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Quotes About Pathetic

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.
~ Mark Linkous
It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.
~ Steven Erikson
It was pathetic, the raving accusations of an ego blind to its own lies.
~ Steven Erikson
Karos Invictad took pleasure in cruelty, making him both pathetic and dangerous. If he were permitted to continue, there was the very real risk that the Letherii people would rise up in true rebellion, and the gutters in every city of the empire would run crimson.
~ Steven Erikson
The human mind is both genius and pathetic, brilliant and idiotic.
~ Steven Sloman
I no longer found the crowd intimidating, but rather pathetic; they too were just cavorting imps and demons on a stage.
~ Storm Constantine
You have welcomed an incubus into your bed yet you shun me. You're pathetic.
~ Storm Constantine
Ethan had told the world, the world sympathized, and Sarah Lemon was now and forever (because wasn't cyberspace instantly forever?) someone you had to be 'nice' to, a pathetic girl who just didn't get it, the scourge of her generation, the lowest rung on the ladder, a loser.
~ Mitch Albom
there's always something pathetic about loneliness. I'd experienced it myself. I would ferociously deny I was pathetic, but when I viewed loneliness in someone else, I could feel the tug of pity.
~ Charlaine Harris
To me, Herod symbolizes the terrible destruction that fearful people can leave in their wake if their fear is unacknowledged, if they have power but can only use it in furtive, pathetic, and futile attempts at self-preservation.
~ Kathleen Norris
No doubt he was brooding upstairs in their bedroom, or perhaps in his study, wishing to God that he'd had the sense to stay the hell away from her as her father asked of him. God knew there had been a few moments as of late when she'd thought the very same. And then she realized that she would rather be miserable with Grey than content with any other man. How pathetic and deranged was that?
~ Kathryn Smith
Look at you, hacker: a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
~ Ken Levine
It was pathetic, but he needed every drop of approval he could get.
~ Suzanne Collins
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
~ Mark Twain
They were all alike, these Unwinds; sucking valuable resources from those more deserving, and clinging to their pathetic individuality, rather than accepting peaceful division.
~ Neal Shusterman
History in the making, at least on the personal level, is almost exclusively pathetic. People suffer and die in ignorance and delusion.
~ Charles Frazier
I've got a wonderful, pathetic little life that is precious to me.
~ Tim Farrington
Maggie waved a gnarled finger in my direction. "Mention one word," she said, voice sharp but grey eyes twinkling with merriment, "and I'll curse your sex life for the next year." I snorted. "Curse away. It can't get any worse." She shook her head. "How can a siren have such a pathetic love life?" "Because I'm a siren who can't actually sing, remember?
~ Keri Arthur
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
I want to change. I know I could if you give me another chance." I couldn't even laugh. He had gone for pitiful and passed right through it to pathetic. "If you want to change, you'll do it on your own.
~ Kristen D. Randle
Later he couldn't even remember who was the one who had come up with the life-saving (or so he thought then) idea of inventing shared memories, to make up a whole life together before and after their meeting. A pathetic attempt to take revenge on merciless chance that had brought them together, only to separate them.
~ Georgi Gospodinov
You're aunt's just--what is it--down the hall. You know damn well this place isn't soundproofed. You'll just have to be quiet. He gave her ribs a deliberate tickle that made her jump and yelp. Or not. Didn't I bang you already today, twice this morning? Darling Eve, you're a pathetic romantic.
~ J.D. Robb
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
~ Henry Rollins
It was such a pathetic little story, a snip of nothing, the kind teenage girls fight over and forget every day. It had led us to this week and this room.
~ Tana French