Poignancy Quotes

26 quotes by 25 authors

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me. — Tracey Ullman
No image, however accomplished, could have captured the agonizing poignancy of that moment. It was a moment to be lived, not framed, analysed or reduced… — Unknown Author
...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it is… — Martha Graham
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the… — Zelda Fitzgerald
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its… — Unknown Author
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all… — Ron Rash
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its… — Michael Leunig
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted… — Paul Tsongas
The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy? — Ming-Dao Deng
I've always been obsessed with penetrating the female psyche. When I shoot, I'm like a tornado. I never sit down, never take a break, never… — Joyce Tenneson
Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what… — Joseph Campbell
The poignancy of a photograph comes from looking back to a fleeting moment in a floating world. The transitoriness is what creates the sense of… — Allen Ginsberg
To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy. — Frederick Delius
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I… — J. D. Daniels
There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Aspergerâ€™s syndrome. Fiction allows the… — Tony Attwood
There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a… — Richard Wilbur
Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord,… — W. Somerset Maugham
There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal-- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was the last time sheâ€™d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that… — Betty Smith
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Who Wrote These Poignancy Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 26 Poignancy Quotes as follows: