Top 172 Poignant Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the creative secrets.
Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
Black History Month is a poignant time for the entire country, but particularly the African American community.
I enjoy humor with a poignant touch.
Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment in time. It's such a poignant song and it was transformed into entirely different beast.
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.
I love Stephen Fry. His tweets are witty, poignant, and intelligent.
Everything about 'Hugo' to me is poignant, from the broken orphan to the old man losing his past to the fragility of film itself.
The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.
'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.
Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
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.
Astonishingly powerful and poignant, 'Gravity' is the rarest of rares: a space survival film informed by a genuine reverence for the awe-inspiring cosmos we inhabit.
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.
The social scene at the Harvard I knew was outside the rules of literature. It was less poignant.
You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.
Memoir is a difficult literary form to pull off when dealing with discrete and poignant moments in a life, even harder when seeking to narrate over 80 years of existence.
Anything written in the French Revolution, that kind of era, is so poignant.
griefs, when divided become less poignant.
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.
I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they were first shared with us.
If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.
To my mind the most poignant mystical exhoration ever written is "Be still and know that I am God."
Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.
A father's death is the most important event, the more heartbreaking and poignant loss in a man's life.
The song Some Other Time is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
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.
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
One thing that I have noticed is that whatever be the function, however poignant or serious, the audience always prefers a speech laced with a bit of humor.
Among all the tragic consequences of depression and war, this suppression of personal self-expression through one's life work is among the most poignant.
No one but John Oliver is going to be able to figure out the code of making a 20-minute monologue on futures, securities, and currency speculation interesting, funny, and poignant politically.
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant must be the impression of the absence.
A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
The disasters of war can be infinitely eerie and poignant.
Deep poignant pathos can be described better in dark humour.
A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.
I have always believed that cinema is one of the greatest instruments of positive social change. Stories can be light, engaging and poignant, but they need to say something.
Any work that is born out of natural serendipity or reverts to simpler times is poignant for people - in any era.
'Sairat' is such a consuming movie, so I was stuck into its story. It has such a poignant end that I was quite moved by it.
An 'Ordinary Woman' is the beautiful and achingly poignant portrait of Gwen, a complex and troubled woman in her middle years.
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make a modern poet. Be poignant, man, be poignant!
The most heartbreakingly poignant modern love story ever written.
'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.
I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.
Movies are a combination of art and mass medium, but television is so single in its purpose-selling-that it operates without that painful, poignant mixture of aspiration and effort and compromise.
