Pathetique Quotes & Sayings

A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love. — Gustavo Dudamel

Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow. — Sholom Aleichem

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse. — Kevin Brooks

Men are not realists - only women are. — Mae West

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind. — Nick Frost

Life: vacant, vain, intolerable. What loyalty did I owe it? None whatsoever. — Donna Tartt

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] ... You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much. — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again. — Joel Madden