Poignant Quotes

78 quotes by 75 authors

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. — Murasaki Shikibu
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their… — James Martineau
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in… — Diane Ackerman
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction. — Oprah Winfrey
He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets… — Arthur Miller
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Robert Frost
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced â€” because in our imagination they have a perfection… — Roger Ebert
Wesley Stace has always been the only genuinely gifted fiction writer who also happens to be a rock star, but Wonderkid is the book he… — Sam Lipsyte
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… — Steve McCurry
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets. — Constantin Stanislavski
Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing… — Susan Sontag
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminskyâ€™s poignant struggle transcends time and… — Binnie Kirshenbaum
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was… — Sybil Adelman
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend dies, and so… — Gene Baur
So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and… — George Jung
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… — Roy Blount, Jr.
At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend… — Oscar Wilde
As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet aloneâ€”though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other menâ€”so… — Evelyn Underhill
Hiroshimaâ€, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: â€œBut in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean… — Sarah Kay

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