Pathetic may refer to:
- Pathos, the rhetorical appeal to emotion
- The pathetic fallacy, an over-personification of inanimate objects
- An American punk rock song on the 1997 album Dude Ranch by Blink-182
- An American metal song on the 2006 album Sacrament by Lamb of God
Famous quotes containing the word pathetic:
“We tried pathetic appeals to the wandering waiters, who told us “they are coming, Sir” in a soothing tone—and we tried stern remonstrance, & they then said “they are coming, Sir” in a more injured tone; & after all such appeals they retired into their dens, and hid themselves behind sideboards and dish-covers, still the chops came not. We agreed that of all virtues a waiter can display, that of a retiring disposition is quite the least desirable.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends to be taken in by to avoid feeling too disappointed. Ghost towns, ghost people. The whole place has the same air of obsolescence about it as Sunset or Hollywood Boulevard.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)