Quotes About Poignant

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 was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

The school was meant to set apart, to break bonds that were better off broken, confined to childhood. Sarah and David accepted this as the sort of poignant rite their exceptional lives would require.

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

I want music to move me, and I don't think it can do that without at least a link to tonality. It's the tug between atonal and tonal which makes music poignant.

When I'm doing an exaggerated character, I hope it's clear I don't think this is how women do, or should, act. There's aspects of Looney Tunes in drag. But there's something poignant about a man dressed as a woman, talking about gender. It can make you realize how similar the genders really are.

safe guidelines for your conversation. Mr. Wrangle went one step further. He doesn't feel it would be emotionally beneficial—for either one of you—to converse at all. He feels that poignant dialogue will merely make your separation

The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable. It was nothing less than the greatest error of modern history.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.

If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.

Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

It was the most moving experience of my life," he wrote, "and the knowledge of what the ambulances contained made it still more poignant." It was with that episode in mind that he concluded his post mortem: "The results attained were made possible only by the superlative quality of American officers, American men and American equipment. No country can stand against such an army.

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

Iggy Pop is legendary - he is awesome - and I am a massive Bruce Springsteen fan. His song 'Cautious Man' is my favourite song. It's really poignant, dark, and moody, like myself.

I hadn't considered the suite, as the French put it, the follow-through to circumstances and events that lends life its air at once poignant and meaningful.

And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus.

I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for background, and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.

I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from that concord.

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

how to be poignant and moving and clever on the face of that, when all I felt was hollow.