I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life. — Hector Elizondo Copy Share Image
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos. — Becky Stark Copy Share Image
Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there's a thin line between pathos and comedy, and I'm not afraid of putting my heart on my sleeve. — John Bishop Copy Share Image
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I… — Anne Reeve Aldrich Copy Share Image
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents.… — John Prine Copy Share Image
I like to weed out the people who aren't going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The anorexic is the fuse nakedly exposed to the direct power of modern media, a psyche whose wiring has no insulation. The… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Art, not less eloquently than literature, teaches her children to venerate the single eye. Remember Matsys. His representations of miser-life are breathing.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“The more we listen to the voices of others, voices unlike our own, the more we remain open to the transcendent forces… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. — Joseph Henry Copy Share Image
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
