Linger Quotes

178 quotes by 160 authors

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them? — Clara Schumann
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. — George Whitefield
So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in… — John Williams
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work.… — Helen Fisher
Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger. — David Levithan
Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on. — Raymond Carver
You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start. — Megan McCafferty
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered… — Nelson Mandela
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place… — Joshua Chamberlain
If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons… — Ray Bradbury
Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen… — James M. Barrie
Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will… — John O'Donohue
Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone, While pain and guilt still linger here below, Blindness and numbness--these please me alone;… — Michelangelo
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Sometimes I see something so moving I know Iâ€™m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out… — Don DeLillo
Clare, I want to tell you, again, I love you. Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker,… — Audrey Niffenegger
The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so… — Milan Kundera
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . .… — Marilynne Robinson
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they donâ€™t at first recognize it for what it is. — Sherwood Smith

Who Wrote These Linger Quotes

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