Pathetic Quotes

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like - and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that's why these plays were so great, because it's such a dark, dark universe that it becomes funny because it's just too pathetic.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.

No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

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.

Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

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.

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don't have to say every Tory is in it for themselves - it's pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States of America is pathetic.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

It seemed pathetic and terrible to me and it still does, that men and women work eight hours a day at jobs that bring them no joy, no reward save a few dollars.

However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

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.

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.