Pathos Quotes

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, Great, Nothing

'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.
Jerry Saltz

Heart, Him, Night

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
Anne Lamott

Great, Team, Wait

From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.
Jason Reitman

Time, Greatest, Find

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

Life, Actor, Plain

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

Words, Found, Nonsense

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, Play, Here

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

Big, Show, Comedy

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

Life, Attracted, Mostly

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

Time, Beautiful, Black

You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Nigel Kennedy

Learn, Profundity

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
Chris Hayes

Anger, Successful, Sadness

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

Genius, Language, Natural

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

Love, Joy, Tell

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

Human, Real, Movie

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

Life, Working, Wish

I didn't expect to feel pathos for the villains in our show. I feel quite moved in several of our episodes; I never realized that a show like 'Motive,' which aims for a broad appeal, could have that sort of emotional impact.
Kristin Lehman

Emotional, Show, Expect

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

Father, Him, Son

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