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
Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help… — Ricky Gervais 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
In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer… — Walter Prescott Webb 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
“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
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
I think it would be exhausting and depressing, to write, to watch and to live, if it was just focused on drama.… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded… — James Marcus Copy Share Image
In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger… — Matthew Lillard Copy Share Image
Aristotle writes that persuasion is based on three things: the ethos, or personal character of the speaker; the pathos, or getting the… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
“Nothing in life was ever clearly drawn, obviously just, or totally emotionally satisfying, but the moment-to-moment stuff of reality featured infinitely more… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
