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Pathos Quotes

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.233

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “The Two Wesleys: On John and Charles Wesley”, p.64, Wipf and Stock Publishers

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

"Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (1999). “Selected Non-fictions”, Viking Press

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

Ellen Glasgow (1938). “Virginia”

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.60

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it.

Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.84, University of Toronto Press

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

Homer Bezaleel Hulbert (1906). “The Passing of Korea”