69 Quotes About Poignant
- Author J.A. Willoughby
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I did so want to hear a singer. I miss the sound of a woman's voice, the way they look and smell.
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- Author Toni Nealie
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It may seem strange to some of you - a Christian minister conducting the funeral of a Mohammedan, he said. No clergyman of his faith is in New Zealand, and we should like to think that were we to die in some land of Islam, similarly situated, there might be found some Sheikh of their religion who would give us a Christian burial.
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- Author Owen J. Flanagan
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Someday you will die. Because you are embodied through and through, at that point you will cease to exist. You will not meet death, because, as the sage says, "Where death is I am not; where I am death is not, so we never meet." When you die there will no longer be any self that is you. Use your self while you have it.
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- Author Dorothy Dunnett
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You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should equally stop you from taking him.
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- Author Avijeet Das
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She speaks in unheard wordspoignant with meanings deepanother bird of silence cawsas the breeze swirls and spins
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- Author Anthony Powell
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Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an insuperable barrier against advancement in almost any direction. However, in those days, choice between dignity and unsatisfied curiosity was less clear to me as a cruel decision that had to be made.
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- Author Ken Liu
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Nostalgia is a wound that we refuse time to heal.
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- Author Jenny Erpenbeck
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This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing house (5.5m long, 3.8m wide, outer wall construction: wood, roof construction: thatch), stows both the plan and the mosquito in his briefcase. On a German shelf, this mosquito, pressed flat between large quantities of paper, will outlast time and times, and one day it might even be petrified, who knows.
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- Author William Golding
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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.
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