Pathetic Quotes - Page 16

• What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hurt, Naked, Body

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.2502, Book House

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• I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Believe, People, Interesting

  "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". BAFTA Lecture, www.bafta.org. September 30, 2011.

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• In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.

  Peter Drucker

  Party, Cutting, Men

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.111, Transaction Publishers

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• Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Art, Wings

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.18, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Moving

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• It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Beautiful, Departed, May

  "Sketches from Life". Book by Laman Blanchard, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, "Memoire", 1846.

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• WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Character, Widows

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2540, Delphi Classics

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• Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Hands, Games, Judging

  "Doom (United States/Czech Republic, 2005)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2005.

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• Suddenly, I win the derby and people are talking about England again. It is absolutely pathetic

  Stuart Pearce

  Winning, Talking, People

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• Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Pride, Men, Fire

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Holiness: The Heart God Purifies”, p.75, Moody Publishers

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• People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.

  Salma Hayek

  New York, Latin, People

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• I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spiritual, Hurt, Giving Up

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.

  Tony Horton

  Get Better, Gross

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• Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

  T. Casey Brennan

  Compassion, Animal, Pet

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• American television really is pathetic.

  Brian Eno

  Television, American Television

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• Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken sandwich? You betcha.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Teeth, Hot

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human [...] is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic.

  David Foster Wallace

  Cynical, Hips, Sentimental

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1996.

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• Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Atheism, Christianity

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Weed, Envy, Water

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.64, A&C Black

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• A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito

  Nobuhiro Watsuki

  Men, Alive, Belief

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• Our weapons are the ironic mind against the literal: the open mind against the credulous; the courageous pursuit of truth against the fearful and abject forces who would set limits to investigation (and who stupidly claim that we already have all the truth we need). Perhaps above all, we affirm life over the cults of death and human sacrifice and are afraid, not of inevitable death, but rather of a human life that is cramped and distorted by the pathetic need to offer mindless adulation, or the dismal belief that the laws of nature respond to wailings and incantations.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Sacrifice, Law

  "Facing Death, Christopher Hitchens Affirms Atheism" by Ethan Cole, www.christianpost.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

  Anne Rice

  Weak

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• I think it rather pathetic that so many people are looking forward to heaven to prove that their doctrinal position was correct.

  Chuck Smith

  Thinking, People, Heaven

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• Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dark, Doors, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Fashion, Passion, Church

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