69 Quotes About Poignant

and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.

What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on the top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you. You just slept the big sleep, not caring about the nastiness of how you died or where you fell.

Everything has a crack in it; that's how the light gets in.

Hope is a desperate man's currency.

People always hurt the people they care about, that's why it hurts so much

They weren't maniacs, and they weren't criminals. They were just ordinary workers at a nuclear power plant. Chernobyl opened an abyss, something beyond Kolyma, Auschwitz, the Holocaust. A person with an axe and a bow, or a person with a grenade launcher and gas chambers, can't kill everyone. But with an atom...

But as love turns to grief, and grief becomes anger, so must anger yield to thought, in order to know itself.

These books were thoughts, emotions, and ideas born in someone’s imagination, translated into ink on paper. Read, again and again, by one, by many, over years, perhaps decades, until the characters had become real in the collective consciousness, achieved life, as much flesh and blood as those who had once walked the earth but were now dust beneath it.

Goddammit to hell, I'm sick of it. Can't I get a place to sleep without dragging it through the courts? I'm goddamn tired of battling every Tom, Dick, and Harry for what everyone else takes for granted. I'm tired!