Poignant Quotes

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.

— Michael Leunig

“Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.”

— Leonard Cohen

“I could live without you, but I wouldn't want to”

— Suzanne Enoch

“Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine”

— Diane Griffith

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

— Eric Hoffer

“In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.”

— Ian Fleming

Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.

— Kanika Dhillon

“There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.”

— Charles Bukowski

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."

— Arnold Bennett

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

— Thomas Middleditch

“...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed.”

— Haven Kimmel

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

— Joel Kinnaman

“I guess you have to born in the Pit to find light where there isn’t any.”

— S.M. McEachern

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

— Oprah Winfrey

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.

— Eddie Vedder

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of…

— Antony Beevor

“I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind…

— Melinda Cross

It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains…

— Paul Merton

One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film…

— Nick Offerman

“For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret,…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight,…

— Patti Smith

If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart…

— Andrew Harvey

Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully…

— Ray Comfort

There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they…

— Gad Saad

With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets…

— Angela Carter

As soon as you opened your mouth and said the word woman, you were beaten down with the argument that you were…

— Alice Schwarzer

Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people…

— Sarah Kay

Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.…

— Anonymous

The quotes are often poignant or funny (one man before the firing squad requests a bulletproof vest) and often don't register as…

— Jonathan Messinger

Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die…

— Carolyn Forche

If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but…

— Oscar Wilde

The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming…

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does…

— Trevanian

“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

“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter…

— Nicole Krauss

“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

“Ah, yeah. Yeah, tis awful all right. Well, your Mam wanted me to talk to you about it, but…’ He stopped; he…

— Ciarán West

“Miriam wished for so much in those final moments. Yet as she closed her eyes, it was not regret any longer but…

— Khaled Hosseini

griefs, when divided become less poignant.

— Eliza Parsons

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

— Elie Wiesel