#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 wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#genuinely #her #i #lying #making

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

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people. ↗

— John Warnock

#communication #empathetic #exist #i #i think

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#aloud #crisis #every #friend #life

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

— Homer

#dear #friend #quite #sympathetic

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#embarrassingly #empathetic #enough #fault #front

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation. ↗

— Julian Clary

#get #motivation #pathetic #really #revenge

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

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal. ↗

— Frank Lampard

#course #disposal #few #few people #great