Pathos Quotes

68 quotes by 59 authors

In their efforts to provide a sufficiency of water where there was not one, men have resorted to every expedient from prayer to dynamite. The… — Walter Prescott Webb
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. — Aristotle
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory… — Henry Van Dyke
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. — John P. Marquand
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. — Homer Hulbert
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life. — Hector Elizondo
I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of pathos… — Mel Smith
Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was. — Kate Elliott
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.… — Mortimer Adler
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. — Edwin Percy Whipple
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. — Joseph Henry
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its… — Michael Leunig
I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It… — Philip Guston
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Haunted from my early youth by the transitoriness and pathos of life, I was aware that it is not enough to say "I am doing… — Margot Asquith
BeyoncÃ© and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. — Clive James
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness â€¦ The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos. — Becky Stark

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