Lingering Quotes - Page 2

• Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

  John Cheever

  Beautiful, Children, Men

  John Cheever (2016). “The Jewels of the Cabots”, p.13, Vintage

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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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• 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 recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Writing, Technology, Found You

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

  "The Power of Prayer". Book by Wright L. Lassiter, p. 14, 2005.

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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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• Man was not intended to live alone... marriage is the best cure for that wretched lingering over one's work. I think I must feel more settled than you all. I would immensely like to see you all married like myself and anchored.

  John Everett Millais

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

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• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Loss, Past

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• From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as you call it, professional relationship, was to go to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP]. I went there as an assistant field secretary, and so forth. So, I suppose that was the first organized step.

  Ella Baker

  Long, People, League

  Source: www.crmvet.org

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• When asked, "What do you think love is?" a lot of people speak of things that are painful or lingering. I wanted to talk about various sides to love. Things such as the excitement, happiness, parting, pain, regret regarding love.

  Seungri

  Pain, Regret, Love Is

  "Big Bang member Seungri". Interview with Jessica Kim, en.tenasia.com. August 27, 2013.

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• It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

  George Saunders

  Giving, Given

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.

  Washington Irving

  Morning, Book, Home

  Washington Irving (1843). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Esq. (Wasington Irving)”, p.172

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• The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Dream, Holiday, Past

  Kenneth Grahame (1914). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.88, Hayes Barton Press

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• Lyric night of the lingering Indian Summer, Shadowy fields that are scentless but full of singing, Never a bird, but the passionless chant of insects, Ceaseless, insistent. The grasshopper's horn, and far-off, high in the maples, The wheel of a locust leisurely grinding the silence Under a moon waning and worn, broken, Tired with summer.

  Sara Teasdale

  Summer, Tired, Moon

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• If a musician wants to blossom into a full-fledged person, it's not enough if he knows only classical music; nor it is enough if he's well-versed only in raagas and techniques. Instead, he should be a knowledgeable person interested in life and philosophy. In his personal life there should be, atleast in some corner of his heart, a tinge of lingering sorrow.

  A. R. Rahman

  Philosophy, Heart, Knowledgeable Person

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• An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

  Mary McCarthy

  Justice, Atmosphere, Way

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• The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

  William Wordsworth

  Kindness, Shadow, Sun

  William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.117

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• It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, and to see the symptoms of vitality disappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.

  Zachary Macaulay

  Country, Agony, Darkness

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• Life should always be like this. ... Like lingering over a good meal.

  Janet Fitch

  Meals, Should, Good Meals

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• How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn't they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?

  Don DeLillo

  Morning, Real, Night

  Don DeLillo, Mark Osteen (1998). “White Noise: Text and Criticism”, Penguin Group USA

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• Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Sex, Women

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Say something in Mandarin,” said Tessa, with a smile. Jem said something that sounded like a lot of breathy vowels and consonants run together, his voice rising and falling melodically: “Ni hen piao liang.” “What did you say?” Tessa was curious. “I said your hair is coming undone — here,” he said, and reached out and tucked an escaping curl back behind her ear. Tessa felt the blood spill hot up into her face, and was glad for the dimness of the carriage. “You have to be careful with it,” he said, taking his hand back, slowly, his fingers lingering against her cheek.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Fall, Hair

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• Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Glasses, Meals, Aftermath

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once we have forgiven, however, we get a new freedom to forget. This time forgetting is a sign of health; it is not a trick to avoid spiritual surgery. We can forget because we have been healed. But even if it is easier to forget after we forgive, we should not make forgetting a test of our forgiving. The test of forgiving lies with healing the lingering pain of the past, not with forgetting the past has ever happened.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Spiritual, Pain, Lying

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• The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Persistence, Reality, Government

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