Pathos Quotes
68 quotes by 59 authors
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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
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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
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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
— Aristotle
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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
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Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
— John P. Marquand
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There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.
— Homer Hulbert
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I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
— Hector Elizondo
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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
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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
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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
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I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
— Gunter Grass
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
— Joseph Henry
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
— Clive James
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Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
— Becky Stark
Who Wrote These Pathos Quotes
59 authors contributed a total of 68 Pathos Quotes, led by these top contributors: