Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Sairat' is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was… — Ishaan Khatter Copy Share Image
Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant. — Katherine Langford Copy Share Image
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Her heart-her whole heart-turned over in such a poignant rush that all the strength seemed to leave her.” — Laura Frantz Copy Share Image
“Frustration is a poignant reminder of ongoing vitality. Enjoy it while you can’t.” — Mark Rogerson Copy Share Image
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any… — Madeline L'Engle Copy Share Image
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful,… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
“Seulement la terre qui obéit, sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond, tandis que nous vers l'infini nous précipitons. Translation: But the obedient… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what… — Shawn Anthony Levy Copy Share Image
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I don't understand why America embraces Lady GaGa and Katy Perry and all of the "pop stuff" as much as they do.… — Matt Thiessen Copy Share Image
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“Will I begin it? said Doyler laughing. That's all that's in it, he laughing said. Oh sure that grin. Oh sure that… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“The people they had been last summer, the person she had been--Dicey guessed she'd never be afraid again, not the way she… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’ He stopped; he… — Ciarán West Copy Share Image
“Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine” — Diane Griffith Copy Share Image
