Close Quote by Edwin P Whipple

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.

— Elizabeth Berg

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos…

— Michael Shannon

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

— Jorge Luis Borges

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

— Jay Saunders Redding

All perfect things are saddening in effect. The autumn wood robed in its scarlet clothes, The matchless tinting on the royal rose Whose velvet…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

— Lydia M. Child

“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems of his…

— Manfred Kuehn

Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things…

— Jonathan Hull

I like to weed out the people who aren't going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials,…

— Jim Jefferies

“The fundamental basis by which the court’s decision might be made is, in itself, imperfect and subject to contradictions. There is very little consideration…

— Ashim Shanker