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(Schoenberg himself, however, had no time for Adorno, complaining of his 'pomposity' and 'oily pathos', — Tom Service

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

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

There is no pathos in real misery, no luxury in real grief. — Jerome K. Jerome

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation. — Homer B. Hulbert

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

I believe that it was the Greeks who said that great messages were composed of logos and pathos - content and passion. — Bryan Loritts

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

When I said I would be the judge of your worth, I did not mean that I owned your life, Rowan Jun.
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In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. — Milan Kundera

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

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

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

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

The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy. — Sandy Hyatt-James

There is a sort of pathos about it when one remembers how few are your days, how childish your pomps, and what shadows you are! — Mark Twain

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

Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos. — Susan Sontag

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. — Michel Faber

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

He wasn't mad, he was sad. — Lionel Shriver

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

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

Irony takes nothing away from pathos. — Gustave Flaubert

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side. — Edwin Percy Whipple

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't learn pathos or profundity. — Nigel Kennedy

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

In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one. — Peter Straub

...saving a life and nurturing a life are different processes, and that to succeed in the former one must dispense with the pathos of the latter. — Anthony Marra

There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met. — P.G. Wodehouse

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

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

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy. — Ellen Glasgow

Let every foot have its own shoe. — Michel De Montaigne

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

Paradox is the pathos or the passion of philosophy. — Gilles Deleuze

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

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. — Mel Smith

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. — G.K. Chesterton

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

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives? — Jorge Luis Borges

But the pathos and the gift of life is that we cannot know which will be our defining heartbreak, or our most victorious joy. — Alexandra Fuller

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

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

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

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

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

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

Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness ... The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos. — Becky Stark

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge