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
“Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was… — Arthur Nersesian Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that I really have a feeling for the theater. These past few days it has occurred to me to… — Federico Garcia Lorca 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
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
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
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
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
Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James Copy Share Image
In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. — Milan Kundera 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
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way. — Jackie Gleason 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
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
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image