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78 Poignant quotes by 72 unique authors

Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance. It denies (in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to claim… — Emma Goldman
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to… — Andrew Harvey
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago… — Richard Dawkins
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There’s something very freeing about losing the anchors that have always defined you. Frightening, sad, but exhilarating in a poignant way, as well. You’re free… — Deborah Smith
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what… — Charlotte Bronte
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. — Jacqueline Carey
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel
Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in our most difficult… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition… — Michael Cunningham
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable,… — Jane Austen
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has… — Bruce Lee
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold… — Grace Noll Crowell
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be… — Amy Carmichael
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of… — Paul Merton
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by powerful lyrics. Put… — Kailash Kher
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… — James Mercer
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant. — Michael Leunig
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences. — Antony Beevor
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it… — Jennifer Connelly
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These… — Howie Mandel
Feel all, so begged the heart. Anger or romance, love or poignant, beautifully everything if it just in time. And this is my heart, in… — Dee

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