Poignant Quotes

• Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.

  Grace Noll Crowell

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Grace Noll Crowell, “Whatever else”

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• Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

  Zane Grey

  Anniversary, Years, Love Grows

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

  Ilka Chase

  Distance, Attachment, May

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Negotiation, Grievance

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Steve Jobs' Commencement Address at Stanford University, news.stanford.edu. June 14, 2005.

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• There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Success, Money

  "Afterthoughts" by Logan Pearsall Smith, 1931.

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivational, Inspirational Life, Hard Work

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on the truth. These stories were funny and poignant to us. They just took off. These are all stories from my life.

  Howie Mandel

  Children, Childhood, Stories

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• From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Dimes, Kelsey, Separation

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• Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Work, Life Changing

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

  Arthur Miller

  Father, Son, World

  "Death of a Salesman". Play by Arthur Miller, 1949.

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• The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table, we must understand the relationship of enslaved people to Africa, to historical trauma, and their central role in food production. Their voice is the most poignant, expressive voice in Southern cuisine.

  Marcie Cohen Ferris

  People, Southern, Historical

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.

  Andrew Harvey

  Inspirational, Beauty, Broken Heart

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• One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film WALL-E. I feel like we're on the cusp of becoming fat babies in floating chairs being fed everything in shake form, and I feel like I am as prone to laziness as anybody.

  Nick Offerman

  Baby, Wall, Adults

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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

  Billy Graham

  Song, Pain, Stories

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.406, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

  Wilbur Smith

  Loneliness, Unrequited Love, Thinking

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

  Oprah Winfrey

  Powerful, Right Direction

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

  Elizabeth Lowell

  Character, Stories, Letters

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• May Sarton said, "the deeper you go, the more universal you become." It's a reminder to me that those things I try to convince myself I don't need to admit are usually those things I need the most to say. Speaking the truth, in its most poignant details, is liberating and gives those around us the freedom to be real.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Real, Giving, Trying

  "Women of Courage: Inspiring Stories from the Women Who Lived Them". Book by Katherine Martin, 1999.

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• Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Pain, Grief, Suffering

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• We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate.

  Bruce Lee

  Roots, People, Insecurity

  "Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living".

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• 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

  Distance, Going Away, Pushing Away

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

  Sigmund Freud

  Father, Loss, Men

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• 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.

  Henry Wriston

  Life, War, Self

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• Mystical power, as you know, has a whole different flavor to it. It's much more raucous at times; it's much more poignant at times. It involves more of the emotional body.

  Frederick Lenz

  Emotional, Different, Flavor

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