Pathos Quotes

• The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

  Lydia M. Child

  Eye, Expression, Genius

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

  John P. Marquand

  Father, Son, Years

  JOHN P. MARQUAND (1963). “THE LATE GEORGE APLEY”

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• 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.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Passion, Soul

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• Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Tongue, Wit, Consistent

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233

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

  Hector Elizondo

  Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To make a happy fireside clime
  To weans and wife,
  That's the true pathos and sublime
  Of human life.

  Robert Burns

  Life, Home, Wife

  Robert Burns (1852). “The life and works of Robert Burns, ed. by R. Chambers”, p.78

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• 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.

  John C. Reilly

  Summer, Drama, Real

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• Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Mother, Memories

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.125, eKitap Projesi

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• Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

  E. M. Forster

  Filth, Piety, Identical

  'A Passage to India' (1924) ch. 14

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

  Arabella Weir

  Crush, Actors, Life Is

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2006.

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• A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.

  Aristotle

  Moving, People, Speech

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• 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.

  Jean Houston

  Health, Eye, Reality

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• It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

  Jackie Gleason

  Laughter, People, Appreciate

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

  Gunter Grass

  Seductive, Nonsense, Found

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• The only real valuable thing is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Moon, Men

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

  Ryan Adams

  Beautiful, Black, Found

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.

  Philip Guston

  Heart, Loss, Suffering

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
  No words to say what it really is, that it is not
  Superficial but a visible core, then there is
  No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.

  John Ashbery

  Experience, Way, Problem

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Manage, Our Lives

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Leaving, Around The World

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• 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.

  Michael Shannon

  Fun, Character, Play

  "'Boardwalk Empire' Star Michael Shannon Talks Character Development And Being Hated". Interview with Jessie Heyman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2011.

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• The Germans have a wonderful combination of pathos, energy, and humor. They are like Californians with an education.

  Joan Juliet Buck

  Energy, Wonderful, Californians

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its myriad tiny nerve endings that notices the neglected pathos, poignancy and practicality that lies at the heart of life. It's as if the media are somehow irritated and envious that anonymous people should have the quiet brilliance of their rich and sustainable inner lives.

  Michael Leunig

  Lying, Heart, Media

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• There is reason to smile and celebrate when you win, but when you struggle, that is about laughter. That is the pathos that is rooted in all comedy. And business is full of pain and hardship and with that, laughter and release.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Pain, Laughter, Struggle

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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