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Quotes About Linger

smelled of cigars extinguished in puddles of beer.
~ John Irving
Thanks to photography, some memories overstay their welcome.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Now those memories come back to haunt me They haunt me like a curse
~ Bruce Springsteen
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
~ Mervyn Peake
There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
A woman with hair a dusty black-brown and eyes of deep blue-the deep dark blue of the dome of sky late in summer when the day turns towards night, but dark won't fall, not quite, because summer wants to stay, hold on the world, linger forever.
~ Nicola Griffith
You who have escaped the sword, depart and do not linger! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come to mind.”
~ Jeremiah 51:50