Pathetic Quotes

380 Pathetic quotes by 304 unique authors

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it… — Jim Butcher
The most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat,… — John Bradshaw
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist,… — Melina Marchetta
They separate us into groups. The Ringleaders and the Others. I belong to the Ringleaders because my weak, pathetic, traitorous, fundamentally base peers point to… — Melina Marchetta
It now lately sometimes seemed a black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on… — David Foster Wallace
He takes out a cigarette and offers one to me. "I try not to indulge. It's a filthy habit," I tell him. "I love that… — Melina Marchetta
War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too… — Patrick Ness
He dunked his tea bag and watched the results critically. “I really must get a new supplier. This tea is pathetic. America just doesn’t understand… — Rachel Caine
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a… — Lisa See
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt
It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now. — Chuck Palahniuk
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez,… — Jorge Luis Borges
How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're… — Ann Brashares
I looked at myself in that window, oblivious to all the people around me and I stared and smiled that particular smile. You know that… — Markus Zusak
Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear. — Anne Rice
Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist. — Audre Lorde
Yes, I sounded like a pathetic weenie. I prefer to think of it as showing my softer side. — James Patterson
So, thanks,” Vivian said. “For what?” I looked up at her, confused. “For being stupid enough to love your crazy, murdering lunatic of a sister… — Kiersten White
We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even… — Paul Auster
I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up.… — Charles Bukowski
I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a… — Curtis Sittenfeld
As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much. — Francine Pascal
And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current… — Mohsin Hamid
Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself… — Brandon Mull

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