Quotes About Lingering

There was a hint of something lingering in her mind. A memory, perhaps, although Jo could only catch the flavor of a few remaining tendrils.

Sadness has a horrible way of lingering in your subconscious.

The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity.

Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.

I couldn't explain philosophy myself, and I doubt you could, either. Although it's ...' Her mother paused. 'I suppose it involves feeling something, and then using that feeling as a starting point for a train of thought. The feeling itself may be naïve, a lingering sense of wonder at something most people take for granted but you hold on to it, and think it through as far as you can. Does that sound right?

Huele a encerrado, a moho, a rancio; produce frío, es húmeda, penetra los vestidos; posee el sabor de una habitación en la que se ha comido; apesta a servicio, a hospicio.

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.

Did it really happen as the legend said? Did they in truth dance here? Were they struck down in their defiance and turned to stone, to stand on this spot as the centuries passed? How fortunate they were! Sudden death was preferable to a lingering one. I thought of the seventh – the one who had been dragged to the hollow wall, the one who was shut in to die; and I was filled with a momentary melancholy.

Writer and director Aislinn Clarke doesn't use the phrase elevated horror. But she has suggested that a difference does exist between something being "scary" and true, lingering horror. The creation of horror depends on upending convention and, she suggests, should "punch up" against those in power rather than "merely making monsters of those at the bottom

hypothermia. It's all over before you know it. That is so much more humane than a long, lingering death, don't you think?" Coke was shivering, and his feet were

The pull of lingering dreams, the strong, bitter tasteof morning coffee, the ticking clock, and horn of awaiting busform a powerful combination to kick-start the day

Girls who have the lingering whispers of rejection still echoing in the hollows of their soul rarely feel completely held safe. So

If you have done something wrong apologize. If someone has done you wrong forgive. Life is too short for hastening and too long for lingering.

the sentiments that Albertine had left with me were more difficult to extinguish than the memory of their original cause.

But we would emerge from our shelter, for the rain was playing a game, now, among the branches, and, even when it was almost dry again underfoot, a stray drop or two, lingering in the hollow of a leaf, would run down and hang glistening from the point of it until suddenly it splashed plump upon our upturned faces from the whole height of the tree.

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!

A bad smell, like a good one, can follow you into tomorrow.

The ghosts, they never go away. They call to you in unexpected moments, their hands lacing with yours and pulling you down paths that lead nowhere.

Farewell! Dearest and most beloved of men_whatever may be my fate_be happiness yours! Once more, my lingering, foreboding heart, repeats farewell!

lingering over her name, polishing it like a smooth stone in his mouth, I knew suddenly and completely that this man had a relationship with my cousin that I did

There were some things that would never go away, no matter how long ago they'd become a habit or how you tried to get rid of them.

that those who are no longer with us remain with us specifically through our memories of them. That memories are perhaps more than just recordings, that they are the actual essence of the people we have known, the places we have been, lingering on long after the event, like time travellers, like ghosts.

I'll do you a show, Howards, you'll never believe. I'll chop you to pieces, and be alive and immortal when you're nothing but a lingering bad taste in a hundred million mouths, fried to a crisp in the electric chair, you Frankenstein axe-murderer you!