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Quotes About Pathos

I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.
~ Lisa Hanawalt
'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.
~ Billy Crystal
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
~ Hector Elizondo
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
~ Lydia M. Child
All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.
~ Jason Winston George
'Birugali Yondige' is a pathos song, but it sounds romantic.
~ Arjun Janya
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
~ Anne Lamott
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it.
~ John C. Reilly
Kind-hearted observers found her full of pathos, and the less generous despised her.
~ Jung Chang
Criticism has already settled all accounts with this subject. It no longer figures as an end in itself, but only as a means. Its essential pathos is indignation, its essential work is denunciation.
~ Karl Marx
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.
~ Jack Kerouac
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
~ Jay Saunders Redding
Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy.
~ Gilles Deleuze
The truest and deepest pathos in this world is not that of suffering but that of brave struggling.
~ William Graham Sumner
Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.
~ Jean Houston
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.
~ Bob Odenkirk
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
~ James Thurber
but the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy.
~ Alexandra Fuller
Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.
~ Kanika Dhillon
So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.
~ Bryan Fogel
There is no deeper pathos in the spiritual life of man than the cruelty of righteous people. If any one idea dominates the teachings of Jesus, it is his opposition to the self-righteousness of the righteous.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr