36 Powerful and Influential Images That Will Touch Your Soul

Often we come across images that tend to reach the depths of our hearts and make us shed a tear or two. But these images are the epitome of heart-wrenching emotions. Moments so human yet so profound that they’re bound to make you cry.

1. A woman’s last moments with her friend.

 

2. A Iraqi refugee breaks out in tears of joy holding his son and his daughter after they arrived safely on a beach on the Greek island of Kos.

 

3. Nine year old girl fleeing from a village in Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was accidentally dropped on it by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force. The girl survived by tearing off her burning clothes.

 

4. Homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India.

 

5. Swedish woman Maria-Teresa Asplund stands alone in confronting hundreds of Neo-Nazi marchers, Sweden, (2016)

 

6. Ten year old Yemeni girl after she was granted divorce from her abusive husband.

 

7. A girl reacts after seeing a field of cows grazing for the first time.

 

8. Tribal kids seeing an iPad for the first time.

 

9. A haunting yet sad image of two children who live by scavenging on a junkyard in Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

10. A man sobs at animal shelter. After being jailed briefly and his dog Buzz Lightyear impounded he couldn’t afford the $400 to get his pet back.

 

11. A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during an inter-Korean temporary family reunions, (2010)

 

12. Victorian Police Constable, Ben Timpson keeps company 2 year old Flint while his mother was trapped underneath a car, in Melbourne, Australia, (2015)

 

13. Ohio man is officially exonerated after spending 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

 

14. A Palestinian girl with a Kalashnikov rifle, amid Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza City.

 

15. Kurdish Couple during the 2016 Nauroz Celebrations.

 

16. Tango dancers in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

 

17. Old Russian couple from Khalilov village, Russia, celebrate 65 years of their marriage.

 

18. A dad’s letter that will melt your heart.

 

19. A Saudi girl breaks stereotypes by hooping in her Niqab and Abaya.

 

20. A Cuban woman smokes a cigar in style.

 

21. A ‘Mongrel Mob’ Biker Gang member from New Zealand.

 

22. Man with Firecrackers during a Festival in Taitung, Taiwan.

 

23. A girl with a face painted in aquamarine during the Maha Shivaratri festival in Kaveripattinam, India.

 

24. A surgeon monitors a patient’s vitals after a 23-hour heart transplant, while his assistant falls asleep in the corner, (1987)

 

25. A girl uses her umbrella to protect a stray dog during monsoon rains in Mumbai.

 

26. A woman getting ready to work out.

 

27. Girl that survived 11 days in Siberian Forest.

 

28. Ethiopian boy has a form of albinism that only affects his eyes, turning them bright blue.

 

29. Hawaiian surfer Ha’a Keaulana runs across the ocean floor with a 50 pound boulder, as training to survive the massive surf waves.

 

30. A biker chick

 

31. A Theyyam Dancer, India

 

32. A charming Tibetan girl.

 

33. A man does a street workout using gravity and rubble amidst the ruins of bombed out buildings in Gaza City.

 

34.  A terminally ill mother watches her daughter’s first dance over Skype.

 

35. A Syrian refugee father breaks down as he is incapable of providing food to his son as the son comforts him.

 

36. A mother is comforted by her 3 year old daughter. They were both attacked with acid by their husband/father.