Pathos Quotes
Pathos Quote of the day
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
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.
To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.
Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.
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.
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel
Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.
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.
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.
I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.
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.
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.
A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.
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.
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.
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.
If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness. The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos.
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.
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.
Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.
The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.