quotes about Pathos
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Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
-- Edwin Percy WhippleSource : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.60
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The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
-- Hector Elizondo -
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There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.
-- Homer HulbertSource : Homer Bezaleel Hulbert (1906). “The Passing of Korea”
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The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.
-- Joseph HenrySource : "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, 1881.
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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 -
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You can't learn pathos or profundity.
-- Nigel KennedySource : "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.
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I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
-- Randeep Hooda -
Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.
-- Stephen Leacock -
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.
-- Daniel KehlmannSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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