In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise… — Andy Serkis 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
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
I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. — Jean Baudrillard 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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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 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
“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
And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it… — John Ashbery 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
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. — Pamela Yates 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
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark… — Kate Elliott 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
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In the course of my life, I've made some happy songs but it's the more sort of like pathos-laden, emotional, melancholic music… — Moby Copy Share Image
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
