Quotes About Poignant

I want to see the king, I said, after explaining who I was. Wonderful, said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. I'm glad for you. That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. Why are you so glad? I asked. Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

I love her courage and heart! Funny, poignant, wise, and woke—an ideal travel companion." —Joan Walsh (The Nation, CNN)

Sometimes words are not enough.

Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

No, this was not an excruciating story to laugh over with Julia. Its very awkwardness and awfulness made it somehow essentially human. It was one of those rare, poignant, pure moments that encapsulated everything that was wonderful and tragic about life.

Its very awkwardness and awfulness made it somehow essentially human. It was one of those rare, poignant, pure moments that encapsulated everything that was wonderful and tragic about life.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

'Sairat' is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

The gospels record a comical but poignant trail of miscomprehensions and botched efforts to follow the master's lead, culminating in his near-total abandonment during the crucifixion.

This sentence cribbed from the back of a cereal box (organic flax and raisin bran) is not the less poignant for its source.

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

The eye of youth is very observant. Youth has its moments of keen intuition, even normal youth -- but the intuition of those who stand mi-way between the sexes is so ruthless, so poignant, so deadly, as to be in the nature of an added scourge...

The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.

This is why there was music. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them.

Colors so bright, they nearly broke my heart.

Ursula is something I will never feel again: she is Melancholy, cut into the soul and flesh.

We are a stoic, reserved bunch who hide our emotions well - except when reading a terribly sad or poignant story, of course. I have been known to sob aloud at a tragic ending.

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.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

Your reading of these words is very beautiful and, somehow, very sad, because we both know it must end.