Quotes about Poignant
If there is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying for hunger of light.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
— Victor Hugo
She smiled and her face was heartbreaking.
— Ernest Hemingway
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others — poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner — young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. Again
— F Scott Fitzgerald