Lingering Quotes

• Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

  Clara Schumann

  Beauty, Beautiful, Why Not

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• The song is ended, but the melody lingers on.

  Irving Berlin

  Positive, Music, Death

  Title of song (1927)

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• In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Dream, Lying

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass”, p.208, Bibliolis Books

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Education, Wise

  'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141

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• 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 people's memories.

  John Towner Williams

  Memories, People, Done

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• I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten.

  Jenny Colgan

  Sweet, Thinking, Love Is

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• We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.

  Nichole Nordeman

  Faith, Dream, Inspiration

  Song: Someday

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• Once, during an interview in front of my wife, I was asked, "Are you one of those actors who brings your character home? Do you stay in character?" I said, "No, not really. I don't do that," and she started laughing. I asked her why. She said, "Well, you might think you don't bring characters home, but you do." So, while I don't feel like a character is lingering, it probably is.

  Jeff Bridges

  Home, Character, Thinking

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• The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to solveyour problems for you or the dreaded ability to make you turn back into a child. When you are no longer hiding from your parents, or clinging to them, and can accept them as fellow human beings, then they may do the same for you.

  Frank Pittman

  Children, Giving Up, Growing Up

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• They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

  Henry Vaughan

  Light, Age, Gone

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• The American spring is by no means so agreeable as the American autumn; both move with faltering step, and slow; but this lingering pace, which is delicious in autumn, is most tormenting in the spring.

  Frances Trollope

  Spring, Moving, Mean

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.124

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• Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain.

  Michael Foot

  Party, Sight, World

  Michael Foot (1980). “Debts of Honour”, London : Davis Poynter

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• Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Time, Past, Looks

  "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.

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• . . . the wellspring for the passion that drove public speech and action in behalf of the environment was in large part religious and ethical. Environmentalism, in short, had become one version of nature religion in the lingering shadow of American transcendentalism.

  Catherine L. Albanese

  Religious, Passion, Shadow

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• God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

  Joshua Harris

  World, Painful Life, Sin

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• Life's sunniest hours are not without
  The shadow of some lingering doubt--
  Amid its brightest joys will steal
  Spectres of evil yet to feel--
  Its warmest love is blent with fears,
  Its confidence a trembling one--
  Its smile--the harbinger of tears--
  Its hope--the change of April's sun!
  A weary lot--in mercy given,
  To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love Is, Evil, Joy

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• The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its existence not suggest that economic adversity is the result of failures of individual character rather than the lingering after-effects of racial discrimination and a slave system that ceased to exist well over a century ago?

  David Horowitz

  Character, Adversity, Class

  "Ten Reasons Why Reparations for Blacks is a Bad Idea for Blacks - and Racist Too" by David Horowitz, FrontPageMagazine.com, January 3, 2001.

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• When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

  George Etherege

  Passion, Violent, Torture

  'The Man of Mode' (1676) act 2, sc. 2

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• To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

  Aldous Huxley

  Appreciation, Book, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1959). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

  Edward Forbes

  Ocean Exploration, Gmos, Sparks

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.26

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• Children's bodies aren't like automobiles with the assailant's fingerprints lingering on the wheel. The world of sexual abuse is quintessentiall y secret. It is the perfect crime.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Children, Perfect, Abuse

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• Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Morning, Cheer

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.

  Lawrence Millman

  Fall, Islands, Self

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• The tomb in Palestine
  Is not the porch of spirits lingering.
  It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay.

  Wallace Stevens

  Jesus, Spirit, Graves

  Wallace Stevens (2012). “The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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