Top 132 Pathos Quotes & Sayings

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

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

There is pathos and drama in 'Half Girlfriend.'

I think there's a thin line between pathos and comedy, and I'm not afraid of putting my heart on my sleeve.

'Parental Guidance' combines comedy and pathos in the best way.

Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.

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

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

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.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

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

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

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

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

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.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

I always like junkyards. All this metal piled up - they're filled with pathos, those places. Much more pathos than most of the music I've heard. You look at it, and there's more feeling, even though it's depressing, than there is in a lot of music I hear these days. A junkyard is what it is, whereas listening to a record by, say, Styx, is something else.

In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade. The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally. The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action, to move people intellectually.

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.

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

'Birugali Yondige' is a pathos song, but it sounds romantic.

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

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.

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

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

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

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

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them as required.

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.

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

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

I like to weed out the people who aren't going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials, I do start more extreme and then, as I get into it, sort of at the three-quarter mark, I normally have a bit of pathos. Is pathos the right word?

As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.

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

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

We're all real people with moments of intense honesty and pathos and humanity. We all experience that, whether you're comedic or not.

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

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Beyoncé and pathos are strangers. Amy Winehouse and pathos are flatmates, and you should see the kitchen.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

I think you're born with a comedy gene, and you can't teach timing, and you can't teach satire, pathos.