Linger Quotes

178 quotes by 160 authors

I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent still linger in… — Libba Bray
Pace is crucial. Fine writing isn't enough. Writing students can be great at producing a single page of well-crafted prose; what they sometimes lack is… — Rose Tremain
The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors.… — Umberto Eco
Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the… — Okakura Kakuzo
The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above… — Carolina Herrera
Moments are precious, sometimes they linger and other times they're fleeing, and yet so much could be done in them; you could change a mind,… — Cecelia Ahern
I've discovered that sometimes God wants us to live inside of the questions. Sometimes he wants us to linger in the waiting, hoping, praying. In… — Pete Wilson
You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your… — Seneca the Younger
When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for… — C S Forester
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. — Okakura Kakuzo
Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To… — Albert Schweitzer
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if… — Albert Camus
The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself. — Seneca the Younger
Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms… — George Eliot
Everybody loves winning, but we should not linger on the difference between winning and losingâ€¦But Is losing failing? — Nick Vujicic
Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist. — Alice Duer Miller
The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company — Seneca the Younger
Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. — Zeena Schreck
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing. — Rumi
Writing, painting, singing -- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound… — Ally Condie

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