Definition of Pathetic

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Definition of Pathetic
	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. Related Definitions: Affecting, Anger, As, Expressing, Full, Grief, Moving, Of, Or, Passionate, Pathetic, Pathos, Pity, Showing, Song, Story, Tender, The

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

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

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

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

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
Dave Barry

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson

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

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

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

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

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