#pathetic

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humour, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#dependence #happiness #helplessness #love #pathetic

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic. ↗

— David Sarnoff

#between #brutal #decadence #difference #our

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth. ↗

— George Saunders

#developing #earth #here #only #our

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them. ↗

— Peter King

#finding #how #infiltrate #islam #looking

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#character #even #good #good and bad #i

I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand. ↗

— Ulrich Walter

#appear #appearance #being #different #differently

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

#discrimination #sympathetic #very #without

I don't like new bands. I don't want to be one of those pathetic old men in their forties who knows exactly what 18-year-olds are into. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#exactly #forties #i #into #knows

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#again #attempt #basic #capable #grasp

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself