Pathos Quotes

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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

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

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

What is real is beyond all reach.

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

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

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

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

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

All that is real is seen with the heart.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

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

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

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

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

German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already.

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

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.