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Quotes About Pathetic

Men without dignity are like clowns without an audience, pathetic and lost
~ Rubin Carter
That's the inner me," he admitted. "Inside I sometimes feel pathetic, awkward, and unloved." "Even after all the confidence you acquired as a pickup artist, a husband, and a father?" "Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." He grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die." Slam.
~ Neil Strauss
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.
~ Christopher Hitchens
He's too ornery to die." Anita looked pathetically grateful for that small bit of comfort. "He is ornery, that's for sure." "I … am … not.
~ Kristin Hannah
Oh, for Time's sake, this is too pathetic. You'd end the universe, because you've had a bad century?
~ Catherine Webb
Then a look of compassion filled her eyes; to be ignorant of the oyster was amusing, but to be unacquainted with the crab was pathetic.
~ James A. Michener
Cheap novels and cheap films about cheap people ran concurrent with American boosterism and yahooism and made a subversive point just by being. They described a fully existing fringe America and fed viewers and readers the demography of a Secret Pervert Republic. It was just garish enough to be laughed off as unreal and just pathetic enough to be recognizably human.
~ James Ellroy
What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.
~ Cory Duchesne
You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,' and I'd say no? That's rude.
~ Grace Slick
Moins la t théorie cherche à passer pour définitive, englobante, moins aussi elle s'objectivisise (vergegenständlichen) face à celui qui pense. La disparition de la contrainte du système permet au pensant de se fier avec moins de prévention à sa propre conscience et expérience que ne le tolérait la conception pathétique d'une subjectivité qui doit payer son triomphe abstrait du renoncement à son contenu spécifique.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God....
~ Thomas de Quincey
A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. Even if it's for sure unexplainable. Even God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
~ Cintra Wilson
Well, I am denying it. You think the world revolves around sex. It's pathetic.
~ Clive Barker
there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination - over other people
~ Virginia Woolf
I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it. Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach. Can I tell you a secret?" Yes, tell me all your secrets Denis kept to himself. Beth leaned in, whispered: "All boys are pathetic.
~ Larry Doyle
Not having any books makes me feel empty and strained and pathetic.
~ Laura Amy Schlitz
Nawin: Patética humana Salamandra: Elfa engreída
~ Laura Gallego García
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
~ laurent yves saint
You are wery obligin', sir,' replied Sam. 'Now, don't allow yourself to be fatigued beyond your powers; there's a amiable bein'. Consider what you owe to society, and don't let yourself be injured by too much work. For the sake o' your feller-creeturs, keep yourself as quiet as you can; only think what a loss you would be!' With these pathetic words, Sam Weller departed.
~ Charles Dickens