Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.
There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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.
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.
Sanjuro: [family he has just saved is crying with gratitude] Stop. Stop crying. It's pathetic. [they keep crying] Sanjuro: I hate pathetic people. I'll have to kill you.
[Clementine comes in drunk and collapses on the couch. Joel has been sitting up and reading; his voice is angry] Joel: It's 3 o'clock. Clementine: I kinda sorta wrecked your car. Joel: You were driving drunk. It's pathetic. Clementine: I was a little...
Lotus's efforts around the Mac were pathetically unsuccessful, which is sad.
I'm sorry I'm so pathetic," he thought, and then realized he had also said it. Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach. Can I tell you a secret?" Denis kept to himself. Beth leaned in, whispered: "All b...
Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or...
My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.
Don't worry that you're being pathetic when you try not to get caught stealing a kiss from your spouse, or when you pray for a time when the kids are out of the house so you can make out on the couch, or when you consider a trip with your husband to ...
Hermione: It's not going to work. Fred: Oh yeah? George: Why's that, Granger? Hermione: You see this? [gestures to a glowing circle on the floor] Hermione: This is an age line. Dumbledore drew it himself. Fred: So? Hermione: So a genius like Dumbledo...
All can I say is that exams are damn pathetic
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny.
The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.
