Pathetic Quotes - Page 12

• I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I know I am. Perhaps tomorrow I will become entirely miserable at the thought that he doesn't love me back - may, even, care for Remy- but at this precise moment I am succumbing to euphoria. My head and stomach feel quite odd.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Believe, Flower, Pigs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.210, A&C Black

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• What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

  Tony Kushner

  Hero, Voice, People

  Tony Kushner (1994). “A Bright Room Called Day”, p.67, Theatre Communications Group

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• Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.

  Claudia Gray

  School, Waiting, Missing

  Claudia Gray (2010). “Stargazer (Evernight, Book 2)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Football, Fun, Rap

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

  Jean Rhys

  Goes On, Able, Illusion

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• I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Men, Animal, Boys

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• Argh? Pathetic and inarticulate. Nice combination. Your mothers must be so proud.

  Eoin Colfer

  Mother, Nice, Proud

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl”, Miramax

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• I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.

  P. D. James

  School, People, Childhood

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• I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is basically what a rejection letter is like: Hello Pathetic Moron, We read your book. It sucked. Don't send us another one. If you do, we will run over your grandmother with a bus. Don't Do It. From, Your Publisher

  James Dashner

  Running, Book, Grandmother

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• Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Voice, Annoyed, Syntax

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• A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Tongue, Spirit, Comic

  Louisa May Alcott (2010). “Little Women”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• Lotto fever hit New York again this week, and like the old saying goes, 'You gotta be in it to win it'... but first, you gotta have a dead end job so pathetic you're willing to kill five hours standing in line for a 1 in 25 million chance.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny Inspirational, Jobs, New York

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• Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gossip, Sublime, Promise

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Revenge, Istanbul

  "New Writing" edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, 1992.

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• Love does nothing but make you weak! It turns you into an object of pity and derision-a mewling pathetic creature no more fit to live than a worm squirming on the pavement after a hard summer rain.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Summer, Lost Love, Rain

  Teresa Medeiros (2013). “The Vampire Who Loved Me”, p.216, Amber House Books

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• The theist can only find meaning by leaving this life for a transcendental world beyond the grave. The human world as he finds it is empty of 'ultimate purpose' and hence meaningless. Theism thus is an attempt to escape from the human condition; it is a pathetic deceit.

  Paul Kurtz

  Leaving, Atheism, Deceit

  Paul Kurtz “Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz”, Transaction Publishers

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• All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Rich, Pity

  Utopia of Usurers, and Other Essays "The Utopia of Usurers" (1917)

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• Unvisited tombstones, unread diaries, and erased video game high-score rankings are three of the most potent symbols of mankind's pathetic and fruitless attempts at immortality.

  Sarah Silverman

  Women, Tombstone, Games

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.137, Faber & Faber

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• You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess.

  Julie James

  Envy, Littles, Not Afraid

  Julie James (2013). “Love Irresistibly”, p.79, Penguin

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• These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous American poet: 'You Walt Whitman-ing, Edna St. Vincent Millay! Go Emily Dickinson your mom!' 'Thanks for the advice, you pathetic piece of E.E. Cummings, but I think I'm gonna pass.' 'You Robert Frost-ing Nikki Giovanni! Get a life, nerd. You're a virgin.' 'Hey bro, you need to go outside and get some fresh air into you. Or a girlfriend.' I need to get a girlfriend into me? I think that shows a fundamental lack of comprehension about how babies are made.

  John Green

  Mom, Baby, Girlfriend

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• Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

  Trudi Canavan

  Slave, Obedience, Uneducated

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• The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

  Holly Black

  Girl, Stupid, Home

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• We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words ‘Too Late’.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Procrastination, Civilization, Thieves

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• The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Thinking, Two

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• Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.

  Bob Seger

  Book, Captains, Heroic

  Song: Revisionism Street

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