Top 25 Pathos Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Pathos Quotes from famous people such as Jim Jefferies, Ryan Adams, John C. Reilly, Jerry Lewis, Randeep Hooda, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I like to weed out the people who aren’t going to enjoy me straight off the bat. If you look at all my specials, I do start more extreme and then, as I get into it, sort of at the three-quarter mark, I normally have a bit of pathos. Is pathos the right word?
Jim Jefferies
I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful… a pathos and mythos at the same time.
Ryan Adams
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
The connection between pathos and broad comedy is very tight. But you do far more work in a comedy scene than you do in a straight scene. It’s much harder.
Jerry Lewis
I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in ‘Highway.’
Randeep Hooda
I like to play characters that get to do it all – to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that’s what’s fun.
Michael Shannon
So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.
Bryan Fogel
In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It’s a hands-on craft. You can’t really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.
Ann Reinking
You can’t learn pathos or profundity.
Nigel Kennedy
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
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
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.
Lydia M. Child
I’m drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.
Lisa Hanawalt
When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured – it’s either there or it isn’t.
Jeff Garlin
I am a big fan of the TV series ‘Taxi’ which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I’ve seen.
Douglas Wood
Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.
Kanika Dhillon
I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.
Elizabeth Berg
‘Birugali Yondige’ is a pathos song, but it sounds romantic.
Arjun Janya
I’m attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I’ve had a lot of it in my life.
Hector Elizondo
‘Parental Guidance’ combines comedy and pathos in the best way.
Billy Crystal
Monsters are a departure from ‘reality’ in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of literature as well as in regards to art. When I sit down to draw, I’m energized by the possibility of creating a monster. That is where I find beauty and pathos.
Emil Ferris
I think you’re born with a comedy gene, and you can’t teach timing, and you can’t teach satire, pathos.
Brad Garrett
All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.
Jason Winston George
Most of my films – if you look at the tone, apart from ‘Shadows,’ which is straight-up comedy – the tone is a mix between comedy and pathos, and I really love that.
Taika Waititi
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
Chris Hayes