pathos quotes

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life.Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, couragethey exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.'

- E(dward) M(organ) Forster
  A Passage to India, ch.14.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

-John P(hillips) Marquand
  The Late George Apley, ch.10.