{"quotes":[{"text":"Love is not all about loving everything perfect, it is when someones corrosive nature is the only thing that glues you to them which you wished it were never there.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["close","corrosive","danger","dangerous","difference","empathy","eternal","favourite","glue","imperfection","infection","love","loving-someone","michael-bassey-johnson","natural","nature","never","one","pathetic","perfection","real-friends","somebody","someone","threat","together","true-friends","true-love","understanding","unity","unpleasant","wild"],"id":27833,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bad-karma","bargain-basement-prices","betrayers","cheaters","competition","dating","dating-advice","delusion","desperate","dignity","dogs","ego","empowerment","examples","exiting","eye-openers","false-confidence","false-happiness","forgetting","games","lack-of-value","lesson-in-life","letting-go","losing","love","low-self-esteem","marriages","men","mistakes","moving-on","observations","on-sale","pathetic","players","positive-women","regaining-control","relationships","revelation","sad","self-respect","self-worth","staying-positive","teenagers","the-good-life","truth","value","wasted-time","women"],"id":52460,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.","author":"Francine Pascal","tags":["nothing","pathetic","perfect","possibility"],"id":69981,"author_id":"Francine+Pascal"},{"text":"If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["criminal","god","laws","men","pathetic","sinner","violate"],"id":81532,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"During voir dire, the interviews for jury selection, each person is asked under oath about their experience with the criminal justice system, as defendant or victim, but usually not even the most elementary effort is made to corroborate those claims. One ADA [Associate District Attorney] told me about inheriting a murder case, after the first jury deadlocked. He checked the raps for the jurors and found that four had criminal records. None of those jurors were prosecuted. Nor was it policy to prosecute defense witnesses who were demonstrably lying--by providing false alibis, for example--because, as another ADA told me, if they win the case, they don't bother, and if they lose, 'it looks like sour grapes.' A cop told me about a brawl at court one day, when he saw court officers tackle a man who tried to escape from the Grand Jury. An undercover was testifying about a buy when the juror recognized him as someone he had sold to. Another cop told me about locking up a woman for buying crack, who begged for a Desk Appearance Ticket, because she had to get back to court, for jury duty--she was the forewoman on a Narcotics case, of course. The worst part about these stories is that when I told them to various ADAs, none were at all surprised; most of those I'd worked with I respected, but the institutionalized expectations were abysmal. They were too used to losing and it showed in how they played the game.","author":"Edward Conlon","tags":["cops","district-attorney","irony","jurors","jury-duty","pathetic","police","the-system","voir-dire"],"id":87037,"author_id":"Edward+Conlon"},{"text":"Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like Pasha, to be still fond of me and to respect me. My God, how I despise myself! I so deeply loathe my voice, my walk, my hands, these clothes, my thoughts. Well, isn't that funny, isn't that shocking? Less than a year ago I was healthy and strong, I was cheerful, tireless, passionate, I worked with these very hands, I could speak to move even Philistines to tears, I could cry when I saw grief, I became indignant when I encountered evil. I knew inspiration, I knew the charm and poetry of quiet nights when from dusk to dawn you sit at your desk or indulge you mind with dreams. I believed, I looked into the future as into the eyes of my own mother... And now, my God, I am exhausted, I do not believe, I spend my days and nights in idleness.","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["despair","idleness","pathetic"],"id":135296,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.","author":"Dennis Lehane","tags":["admit","broken-hearted","confess","delusion","denial","happy","heal","healing","honesty","hope","life","love","pathetic","recover","rigourous-honesty","scars","self-hate","tragic","treatment","wound"],"id":136636,"author_id":"Dennis+Lehane"},{"text":"I PAINT MY FACE.By Omrane Khuder.Mirror, distorted; I sit, paint my Face,Toxic white Make-up buries my Scars,My Eyes tell lies; Dumbfounded Confidence hides the Disgrace.Place the tragic Vehicle called My Life in to Drive,Sad pathetic Clown; Late for the suppression show,Despair another time; Let the chuckles and defeat derive.I paint my Heart; I hide my True.I paint my Soul; I keep it from You.I paint, I cannot accept; To ignore you the way you ignore Me?I paint my scarred and pitiful Face; No Will left to restore Me.I paint my Face; it’s all I know to do.My painted Face shatters the Mirror, yet still all I see is You.","author":"Omrane Khuder","tags":["clown","confidence","defeat","depression","disgrace","face","heart","ignore","lies","makeup","mirror","paint","pathetic","sad","scars","soul","will"],"id":151627,"author_id":"Omrane+Khuder"},{"text":"There is nothing in the world more pathetic than a bunch of wilted dandelions.","author":"Shannon Wiersbitzky","tags":["dandelions","flowers","pathetic","wilted"],"id":169686,"author_id":"Shannon+Wiersbitzky"},{"text":"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["belief","democracy","government","humor","ignorance","intelligence","pathetic","political-commentary","politics","public-office"],"id":208822,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}