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You and I are black and white - a film noir, filled with gestures, poignant and tender — John Geddes

The sad and poignant thing for Johnson, however, was not his anti-intellectualism in itself but his need to be accepted by the very people he scorned. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Come, sir, come,
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods. — William Shakespeare

There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you. — Anthony Powell

I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell. — J.A. Willoughby

Frustration is a poignant reminder of ongoing vitality. Enjoy it while you can't. — Mark Rogerson

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham

The song 'Some Other Time ... ' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling. — Betty Comden

Rich said, "As your get older, feelings are harder to come by." It was so simple and poignant. — Ahmir Questlove Thompson

Memories lurk like dustballs in the backs of drawers. The stereo is a special model that plays only music fraught with poignant associations. — Jay McInerney

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently. — Jacqueline Carey

The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant. — Michael Leunig

I also hate the word, 'poignant. — John Arnold

Hope is a desperate man's currency. — Paul Tremblay

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant. — Joel Kinnaman

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. — Logan Pearsall Smith

The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep. — Murasaki Shikibu

Memories, real and irreplaceable, all of them. The happy ones, the bitter ones, the terrified and the poignant. — A.G. Howard

Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light ...
I just want to be pure. — Jim Carroll

I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad. — Grace Slick

You realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else. — Jonathan Tropper

Life has to end. Love doesn't. — Mitch Albom

It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals. — Eddie Vedder

And the most poignant thing was not Lolita's absence from my side, but the absence of her voice from the chorus. — Vladimir Nabokov

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it. — Roy Blount Jr.

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant. — Polly Horvath

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. — Wilbur Smith

I guess you have to born in the Pit to find light where there isn't any. — S.M. McEachern

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. — Eric Hoffer

Griefs, when divided become less poignant. — Eliza Parsons

How can you hide from what never goes away? — Heraclitus

Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing away pulls you in. — Coleman Barks

I could live without you, but I wouldn't want to — Suzanne Enoch

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others
young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written. — Raymond Queneau

All that remained were poignant memories, and she must face reality, not live on dreams. — Elizabeth Chadwick

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

He was the friend of my life. You know, you only have one friend like that; there can't be two. — James Salter

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

Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good. — Victor Hugo

Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters. — Elizabeth Lowell

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone. — Lawren Leo

I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences. — Antony Beevor

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

A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life. — Sigmund Freud

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant. — Perry Brass

Oh, so poignant' said Varys. 'And yet, it is truly said that blood runs truer than oaths — George R R Martin

A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. — A.O. Scott

Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment. — Ilka Chase

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. — William Watson Purkey

...every beautiful and strange event made more poignant for having been photographed. — Haven Kimmel

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. — Craig Thompson

Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us. — George Carlin

What magic scale childhood does make of raw reality. — Brendan Cowell

Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine — Diane Griffith

The scene sucker-punched Max. He never saw it coming. It encapsulated in one poignant instant the tragic beauty of his family history. — Sol Luckman

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die. — Patrick Rothfuss

To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God." — Arnold Bennett

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction. — Oprah Winfrey

My poignant regret is that I so nonchalantly ended my youth, blithely discarding those remaining seasons in the sun. — Lionel Fisher

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything. — William Golding

To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time. — T.L. Rese

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel
The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel — Neil Gaiman

There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out. — Charles Bukowski

With time the unbearable becomes shocking, becomes sad, and finally becomes poignant. — Rosanne Cash

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief. — Zora Neale Hurston

In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come. — Ian Fleming

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. — Barbara Kingsolver

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply. — Zane Grey

Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself. — John Logan