Pathetic
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
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Pathetic Quotations
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Mark Twain
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Pablo Picasso
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson
To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
Dave Barry
Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.
George Santayana
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
John D. Rockefeller
People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
Walter Annenberg
All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.
John Ruskin
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