Poignantly Quotes

#1. The language of soul ... possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

Claude Brown

#2. It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church - dramatically and poignantly - the nature of its heart and mission.

Gary Smith

#3. This [June's] account poignantly illustrates many of the multi- faceted, complex, and contradictory processes contained in participants' stories.

Norma Jean Profitt

#4. The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, More real than real, more gold than gold.

Kenneth Rexroth

#5. The smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

Margaret Millar

#6. There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Samuel Richardson

#7. To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Erich Fromm

#8. To her all things are poignantly lacking - but she is incapable of desiring anything.

Beryl Markham

#9. No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Jane Addams

#10. I loved him in the way that one loves those who no longer matter: poignantly.

Molly O'Neill

#11. Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.

Eric Maisel

#12. He describes poignantly the prisoners who gave up on life, who had lost all hope for a future and were inevitably the first to die.

Viktor E. Frankl

#13. The most widely raised type of silkworm, the larva of the 'Bombyx mori', no longer exists anywhere in a natural state. As my encyclopedia poignantly puts it: 'The legs of the larvae have degenerated, and the adults no longer fly'.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. I write - poignantly, in the most heartfelt way - about how I miss her and how I detest my life in this school and she responds with detailed plans for her future life as an archaeologist or philosopher or - new, this - a veterinary surgeon.

William Boyd

#15. You'll feel the sting even more poignantly if you buy into the system's credo that the more you have, and the more you own, the happier you will be. If this is the case, then you're

Joe Barnes

#16. I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

#17. The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#18. Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

Joyce Carol Oates

#19. The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. The most exuberant expression of the body is in dance. Dance theater is wonderful. The dance becomes fluent sculpture. The body shapes the emptiness poignantly and majestically. The

John O'Donohue

#21. God is a writer and we are both the heroes and the readers.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#22. Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#23. A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

Francois Mauriac

#24. We can live without sex, but we cant live without love.

Shane Claiborne

#25. The wider the spread between the wealthy few and the impoverished many, the worse the social problems: a statement which appears to be true for rich and poor countries alike. What matters is not how affluent a country is but how unequal it is.

Tony Judt

#26. The angels had guitars before they had wings.

Meat Loaf

#27. Man's most dangerous enemy is the one he was once closest to.

S. Hussain Zaidi