Poignant Quotes
Poignant Quote of the day
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in.
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather than being seen in every single seen.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.
Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.
You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!
A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.
Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.
The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.
We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars)
You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.
She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.
A faint tear wet Meiko's eye, so slight a bit of moisture that it passed unseen by Yasuko. Yet all the anguish of which she never spoke was compressed into that single drop