Linger Quotes

178 quotes by 149 authors

Painful experiences are not meant to linger. They are meant to teach us what they need to teach us, and then dissolve. — Marianne Williamson
Beauty is transcendent. It is our most immediate experience of the eternal. Think of what it's like to behold a gorgeous sunset or the ocean… — Stasi Eldredge
Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over… — Diane Ackerman
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at… — William Barclay
You linger to see his back, and the back of his neck and shoulder-side...The Bending forward and backward of the rowers... — Walt Whitman
Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you… — Mary Balogh
Even places that have been shrouded in darkness for billions of years can be illuminated. Even a stone from the bottom of a river can… — Daisaku Ikeda
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all… — Hugh Miller
Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die… — Margaret Drabble
Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way. — Rabindranath Tagore
You move just a finger, say the slightest word, something's bound to linger-be heard. — Stephen Sondheim
Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in… — Vince Lombardi
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs… — Rick Steves
Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl… — Virginia Woolf
All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between… — J. A. Spender
I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet… — Isaac Asimov
While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see. — Jane Jacobs
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after… — Thomas S. Monson

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149 authors contributed a total of 178 Linger Quotes, led by these top contributors: