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Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value. -- E. M. Forster
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. -- Lydia M. Child
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos. -- Aristotle
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life. -- Hector Elizondo
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted. -- Arabella Weir
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. -- Gunter Grass
Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required. -- Michel Faber
Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view. -- Jean Houston
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 got a real pathos behind it. -- John C. Reilly
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work. -- Daniel Kehlmann
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 who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. -- Soren Kierkegaard
The only real valuable thing is intuition. -- Albert Einstein
Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. -- Everett Dirksen
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life. -- Joseph Henry
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power. -- Ayn Rand
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. -- James Thurber
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion. -- Charles Spurgeon
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life. -- Robert Burns
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. -- John P. Marquand
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 is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart. -- Philip Guston
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time. -- Paul Fussell
Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music. -- Susan Sontag
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. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually. -- Mortimer Adler
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 of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. -- Henry Van Dyke
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 have to offer is your own sensibility, maybe your own sense of humor or insider pathos or meaning. All of us can sing the same song, and there will still be four billion different renditions. -- Anne Lamott
You can't learn pathos or profundity. -- Nigel Kennedy
I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. -- Patti Page
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time. -- Ryan Adams
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son. -- John P. Marquand
I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.' -- Randeep Hooda
I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen. -- Douglas Wood
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 in it and I'm intrigued by her. -- Mel Smith
I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun. -- Michael Shannon
Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.' -- Andy Serkis
I didn't expect to feel pathos for the villains in our show. I feel quite moved in several of our episodes; I never realized that a show like 'Motive,' which aims for a broad appeal, could have that sort of emotional impact. -- Kristin Lehman
When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't. -- Jeff Garlin
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something. -- Chris Hayes
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different - to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices. -- Virginia Postrel
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 Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. -- Anne Lamott
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 in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. -- Jerry Saltz
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 of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen. -- Jason Reitman
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy. -- Ellen Glasgow
Past is pregnant with pieces of pathos and peace. -- Junaid e Mustafa
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
Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos. -- Mason Cooley
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. -- Homer Hulbert
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage. -- Jean Baudrillard
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education. -- Joan Juliet Buck
BeyoncÃ© and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen. -- Clive James
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. -- Stephen Leacock
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way. -- Jackie Gleason
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. -- Jack Kerouac
All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel -- Paul Fussell
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. -- Jay Saunders Redding
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past. -- Susan Sontag
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out. -- Nicolas Cage
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Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. -- Susan Sontag
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder. -- Pamela Yates
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not. -- Bob Odenkirk
With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun. -- Ricky Gervais
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch. -- Peter Gay
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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 but womanhood. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 without consequence.. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class ... -- Emma Goldman
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands. -- John Paul II

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