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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life.

  Walt Disney

  Uplifting, Gratitude, Moving Forward

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

  Peter Gay

  Years, Generations, Kitsch

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• Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, Character, Expression

  James Thurber (1961). “Lanterns & lances”

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• The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Tragedy, Life Is

  Ellen Glasgow (1938). “Virginia”

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• German can take a lot more pathos than English can. When you say "pathetic" in English it's a disparaging term, but when you say "pathetisch" in German it's just a description, not necessarily negative. That says a lot already.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Negative, Description, Term

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Art, Arrogance, Trends

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

  Homer Hulbert

  Peculiar, Extinction, Nations

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

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• Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Sweet, Laughter, Echoes

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 54), 2006.

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• The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Trying

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Graduation, Uplifting

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Twilight

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Power, Needs

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• Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Passion, Perfect

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.10, Macmillan

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Joy

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Optimistic, Laughing

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.

  Joseph Henry

  Infinite, Pity, Human Life

  "John Inglesant". Book by Joseph Henry Shorthouse, 1881.

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• I cannot help feeling there is something essentially wrong about love. Friends may quarrel or drift apart, close relations too, but there is not this pang, this pathos, this fatality which clings to love. Friendship never has that doomed look. Why, what is the matter? I have not stopped loving you, but because I cannot go on kissing your dim dear face, we must part, we must part.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Kissing, Loving You, Feelings

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Real Life of Sebastian Knight”, p.92, Penguin UK

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• In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

  Milan Kundera

  Emotion, Sincerity, Dare

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• For a wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy.

  E. M. Forster

  Gratitude, Children, Love Life

  E. M. Forster (2015). “Where Angels Fear to Tread”, p.109, Booklassic

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• People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beautiful, People, May

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Men, People

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• What is real is beyond all reach.

  Julian Green

  Real, Keeping It Real

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• I have always found the times when another person recognizes you to be strangely sad; I suspect the pathos of these moments is their rareness, the way they contrast with most daily encounters. That reminder that it can be different, that you need not go through your life unknown but that you probably still will--that is the part that's almost unbearable.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Encounters, Different, Needs

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• THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Giving, Touching

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• The real us is pure love, pure light

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Real, Light, Four Agreements

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