#pathos

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

— John Phillips Marquand

#always #divide #father #gulf #him

Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity ↗

— Arthur Nersesian

#humor #pathos #standards #young-people #humor

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#stories #laugh

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

— Patti Page

#i #i can #joy #love #pathos

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

#behind #creating #drama #even #exciting

The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy. ↗

— Sandy Hyatt-James

#parallel-world #pathos #revenge #romance #suspense

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

#else #embryo #exposed #grandiose #great

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

#democratic #democrats #described #everyone #fan

You can't learn pathos or profundity. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#pathos #profundity #you

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

#had #her #i #i think #i wish