Definition of Pathos

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Pathos

The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos.

Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

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Pathos Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pathos Translations

pathos in Spanish is patetismo

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