Pathetic Quotes

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential.

We were sitting on the bus one day and there were 5 of us hanging out. There was only one beer left in the cooler and we actually all took a little cup and split it. It was a pathetic day in a rock and roll when five grown men have to be sitting there sharing a beer.