Pathetic Quotes - Page 6

• I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Fleeting, Way, Tricks

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• As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

  Francine Pascal

  Reality, Perfect, Possibility

  Francine Pascal (2013). “Fearless 2: Twisted; Kiss; Payback”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Beautiful, Husband, Son

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• Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

  Brandon Mull

  Dirty, Taken, Cells

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• Tranq'd by your own gun,"Lev says."How pathetic.

  Neal Shusterman

  Gun

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwholly”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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• Glaring at the Gasman, ter Borcht said, “Your time is coming to an end, you pathetic failure of an experiment. Vhat you say now is how you vill be remembered.” Gazzy’s blue eyes flashed. “Then you can remember me telling you to kiss my-” “Enough!” ter Borcht said.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Kissing, Blue

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.615, Hachette UK

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• Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Half, Idiot, Andrew

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• Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

  Sarah Dessen

  Pauses

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.118, Penguin

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• Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

  Judith Guest

  Action, Life Is, Reason

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• When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Hate, Voice, Needs

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Why does everybody have to be with somebody? It’s a stupid delusion and a really pathetic way of thinking.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Stupid, Thinking, Doe

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• Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater". Book by Thomas de Quincey, 1821.

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• If Congress were to pass a 'flat' tax, you'd simply pay a fixed percentage of your income, and you wouldn't have to fill out any complicated forms, and there would be no loopholes for politically connected groups, and normal people would actually understand the tax laws, and giant talking broccoli stalks would come around and mow your lawn for free, because Congress is NOT going to pass a flat tax, you pathetic fool.

  Dave Barry

  Talking, Law, People

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• Maybe that whole love thing is just a grown-up version of Santa Claus; just a myth we've been fed since childhood. So, we keep buying magazines, joining clubs, and doing therapy and watching movies with hit pop songs played over love montages all in a pathetic attempt to explain why our love Santa keeps getting caught in the chimney.

  Meg Ryan

  Song, Childhood, Joining

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• I walked out the wrong car door and started walking into the crowd, An interviewer said, 'Give your best horror scream,' and Stan did this great scream, and I was too much of a wimp to do one. It was pathetic!

  Robert Pattinson

  Doors, Careers, Giving

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• It was really starting to get pathetic, everyday they would come in looking for one thing or another. 'Zach, can you give me some acting tips?' 'Zach, will you let me blow you?' 'Can I have some cash?' That's when I made the call, that's when I decided seven was enough

  Zach Braff

  Blow, Giving, Everyday

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• Id rather be selling groundnuts in my village than play for a pathetic club like Chelsea FC

  Samuel Eto'o

  Play, Village, Clubs

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• It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we are - and we start to believe it ourselves. Then, bent over from the weight of the negativity, we start to wither on the outside.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Being Yourself, Believe, Negativity

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• In Burton's day they [soldiers] were itching to get into the fray. Now it is the opposite. They are always whining about the dangers of being killed. Oh my God, they are such wimps now! The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining!

  Rupert Everett

  War, Army, Thinking

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• I spent a lot of time waiting for things to happen to me, which is more or less as pathetic as it sounds.

  Sloane Crosley

  Waiting, Sound, Happens

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.65, Portobello Books

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• Trash? The only trash I see here are two little boys lost at sea and a pathetic excuse for a seaworthy vessel!

  Davy Jones

  Boys, Sea, Two

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• I've been around so long that I might be in record books for being the longest, weirdest, most pathetic great player ever. Look t how precocious I am at 33.

  Vince Spadea

  Book, Player, Long

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• What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

  Jorge Luis Borges

  World, Mortality, Form

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.243, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Headache, States

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• Dinner was meat - not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain - which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

  Clive James

  Funny, Girl, Humorous

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.286, Pan Macmillan

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