Pathos Quotes
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A speaker who is attempting to move people to thought or action must concern himself with Pathos.
Aristotle -
[Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You can't learn pathos or profundity.
Nigel Kennedy -
Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.
Kate Elliott -
I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.
Hector Elizondo -
There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.
John Prine -
English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.
Daniel Kehlmann -
The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.
Susan Sontag