Quotes About Lingering

His kiss was light but lingering, like smoke from shivering lips on a freezing winter morning.

the echo of words we think we have left behind

tasted of stale beer and tobacco.

It's painful when the phantom of the past keeps on lingering you even you wanted to move on.

Once a thing is removed from your heart, a trace of it still remains.

The dead were too ...present.

Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around...

other people's perfume sticks with you like a bladder infection.

I have long believed that the ghosts of the past still linger here. They are stark reminders of the trauma and terror experienced by the unlucky patrons who had tickets to an afternoon matinee that day – and a chilling remembrance of a tragedy that should never be forgotten.

I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.

Never underestimate the lingering effects of a dash of spontaneous comfort.

You will find the blue hills... with the autumnal shadows silently sleeping on them, and there will be a glory lingering round the day, so you'll know autumn has been here; and the setting sun will tell you...

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Once you put a romantic image in someone's head, it's hard to get it out.

Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

Death disapearance was what you didnt talk about. like a sewer running under the street, the shit was down there, out of sight, but you could smell it, it didnt go away, it didnt vanish

Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.

This is the problem with time…It doesn't follow its own rules. It stretches or compresses at will. It's either a lingering house guest or an escape artist.

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.

She haunted him, as an ungenerous action haunts one.

The place smelled of sweat and burned coffee and the passage of time, which held its own moldy stink.

Fall was nearly here, but summer was still hanging on, dragging its heat-flamed and moisture-rich knuckles across the stark tundra.

The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated.