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Quotes About Poignant

I'm a woman who loves words, but there are times there are no words.
~ Elizabeth Joy Arnold
From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
~ Madeline Kahn
'Callister' is feature-length, and it's one of the coolest things I've ever been asked to be a part of. It's poignant and moving and thrilling. If this was one movie, it would be an accomplishment, and they make six of them.
~ Cristin Milioti
It was a love story, of course, which held the women in thrall, even though most of them had heard it many times before, but it was also a poignant story of the love two brothers had for each other.
~ Sandra Hill
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.
~ Victor Hugo
Il fallait cueillir sur ses lèvres les mots qu'elle s'arrachait dans un souffle et que leur mystère rendait troublants comme des oracles. Ses souvenirs, ses idées, ses soucis flottaient hors du temps, transformés en rêves irréels et poignants par sa voix puérile et l'imminence de sa mort.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Christopher Hitchens's autobiography, 'Hitch 22', is a poignant read and very interesting because I have a very poor knowledge of recent political history - or, for that matter, distant political history.
~ Tim Minchin
'Varmathiye' is a song that can touch your hearts.
~ Shweta Menon
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
~ Betty Comden
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
The truth of her nature gave out an undimmed light—and all her love of beauty, and of persons, was made poignant by this imperishable integrity." Her strength came from very deep and had nothing to do with discipline or control. She never became a character, set in her ways, but remained to the end a nature, rich and open to life, able to deal with radical change and to welcome it.
~ May Sarton
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
~ Cai Guo-Qiang
The boy stood on the burning deck,Whence all but he had fled.
~ Felicia Hemans
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
~ A. O. Scott
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
~ James Mercer
and I cannot tell you how vastly my loneliness was deepened, how poignant and amplified the world before me seemed, when I found on one page a few greasy looking smears and next to them, written in soft pencil– by a beautiful girl, I could tell, whom I would never meet– "Pardon the egg salad stains, but I'm in love.
~ Billy Collins
Stargazing is the story of a happy family plunged into an unexpected drama: it's poignant, warm, and unpredictable. I enjoyed it hugely.' -- Julie Cohen
~ Julie Cohen
This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
~ Justin Cronin
SHE COULDN'T have said what it was, in the conditions, that renewed the whole solemnity, but by the end of twenty minutes a kind of wistful hush had fallen upon them, as before something poignant in which her visitor also participated. That was nothing verily but the perfection of the charm—or nothing rather but their excluded disinherited state in the presence of it. The
~ Henry James
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
~ Raymond Queneau
have a dim half remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing, darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant.
~ Bram Stoker
It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
~ Bruce Oldfield
An 'Ordinary Woman' is the beautiful and achingly poignant portrait of Gwen, a complex and troubled woman in her middle years.
~ Sarah Lancashire