I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Blaxploitation films were all about centering Black love, action, pathos and showing Black folks with agency. — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. — Henry Van Dyke 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
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' — Randeep Hooda Copy Share Image
Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
Most of my films - if you look at the tone, apart from 'Shadows,' which is straight-up comedy - the tone is… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a… — Mel Smith 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
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
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is reason to smile and celebrate when you win, but when you struggle, that is about laughter. That is the pathos… — Ronnie Apteker Copy Share Image
One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early… — Edgar Lee Masters 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
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 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
It is a nostalgic time right now, and photographs actively promote nostalgia. Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11;… — Cindy Sherman 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 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
Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
