Pathos Quotes

68 quotes by 59 authors

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. — Stephen Leacock
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. — Everett Dirksen
The only real valuable thing is intuition. — Albert Einstein
In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us… — John F. Kennedy
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker… — Soren Kierkegaard
The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the… — Anne Lamott
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. — Ayn Rand
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's… — John C. Reilly
From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters… — Jason Reitman
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought… — Jerry Saltz
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. — Jack Kerouac
I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness,… — Curtis Sittenfeld
Life is like a recycling center, where all the concerns and dramas of humankind get recycled back and forth across the universe. But what you… — Anne Lamott
For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children… — E. M. Forster
In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. — Milan Kundera
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? — Jorge Luis Borges
I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this… — Vladimir Nabokov
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With… — Walt Disney
Manga is virtual. Manga is sentiment. Manga is resistance. Manga is bizarre. Manga is pathos. Manga is destruction. Manga is arrogance. Manga is love. Manga… — Osamu Tezuka

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