A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
Chuck PalahniukLet every foot have its own shoe.
Michel de MontaigneTags: pathos
The moment you stop chasing happiness, you become happy.
Sandy Hyatt-JamesTags: revenge romance suspense pathos another-planet parallel-world
Irony takes nothing away from pathos.
Gustave FlaubertIt is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.
Annie DillardTags: pathos
How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: writing pathos illuminate
Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity
Arthur NersesianTags: humor failure standards young-people pathos
He wasn't mad, he was sad.
Lionel ShriverTags: sadness pathos lionel-shriver
In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, -- Emerson, Thoreau, Theodore Parker, -- who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. Every variety of power was in this orator, -- logic and poetry, humor and imagination, simplicity and dramatic art, moral and boundless sympathy. The wonderful power which Washington's Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed to Thomas Paine of insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed from Paine's pen to Ingersoll's tongue. The effect on the people was indescribable. The large theatre was crowded from pit to dome. The people were carried from plaudits of his argument to loud laughter at his humorous sentences, and his flexible voice carried the sympathies of the assembly with it, at times moving them to tears by his pathos.
{Conway's thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll}
Tags: humor wisdom imagination inspirational truth art friendship love reason poetry power laughter morality speech admiration emotion sympathy logic tears simplicity respect honor praise emerson voice lecture ralph-waldo-emerson pathos paine thomas-paine memorable thoreau mirth ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll henry-david-thoreau boston henry-d-thoreau henry-thoreau orator ralph-e-emerson ralph-emerson some-mistakes-of-moses
The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding their legalistic forbearance into a necessary frenzy that would allow them to suitably work up a case for one side or the other on how the Law, without the possibility of misinterpretation, states If ABC, then DEF—or for the sake of acknowledging the counterargument first as a courtroom tactic, the case might also be made that the Law states the antithesis of the aforementioned If ABC, then DEF, but gives allowance within reasonable parameters for a provisional XYZ to be granted in exceptional cases. And thus, it was a matter not so much of making one’s case in a clear and logical sense, but one for the lawyers to battle out in the arena of pathos, as it was clearly the emotional pleas that could evoke a sense of sympathy in the courtroom and overturn otherwise painstaking endeavors at using the tools at hand to make pleas based upon incontrovertible facts.
Ashim ShankerTags: contradictions pathos moral-relativism common-good misinterpretation ashim-shanker hollow-systems-of-jurisprudence ambiguities incontrovertible law-and-justice legalistic-forbearance
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