Pathos Quotes

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.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

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.

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.

I am a big fan of the TV series 'Taxi' which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen.

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.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

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.