Distress Quote by Edward St. Aubyn

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart…

— David O. Russell

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less…

— Stefan Zweig

There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought…

— J. D. Daniels

“Some are born rich While others poor; Some are born free While others captives; Some are born blessed While others deprived; Some are born…

— Emmanuel Aghado

There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome. Fiction allows…

— Tony Attwood

Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received…

— Oliver Goldsmith

The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they are prehistoric…

— John Leguizamo

...Although, as the Latin verb to educate, educate, indicates, it is not a question of putting something in but drawing it out, if it…

— Martha Graham

Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see,…

— Peter C Bunnell

Pathos and poignancy are, to me, tactics and techniques; in my work as a writer, I fetch them from my toolbox and use them…

— Michel Faber

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

“The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history.”

— Sol Luckman

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.”

— Steven Erikson

If you want to reach any kind of poignancy or meaning a lot of times, coming from comedy is the best way to get…

— Matthew Weiner