#pathetic

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. ↗

— Mark Twain

#everything #heaven #human #itself #joy

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations. ↗

— Jason Biggs

#characters #end #endearing #even #i

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appealed #audience #cords #douglas #effort

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. ↗

— Homer

#dear #friend #quite #sympathetic

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces. ↗

— Kit Bond

#am #forces #i #i am #knows

Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#enemy #every #fancies #far #friend

We have, of course, long since ceased to think of Nature as the sympathetic mirror of our moods, or to imagine that she has any concern with the temporal affairs of man. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#any #ceased #concern #course #imagine

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#fashion #i #life #my life #pathetic

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#assured #broad #consciousness #consecrates #conviction

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic