“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”

— Mervyn Peake , book Titus Groan

Source: Titus Groan

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English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911–1968

Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet

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“The human heart is a lonely lane in the evening, and two lovers are walking down it, whispering and lingering.”

Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister

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“When power is gone the memory of power lingers.”

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“The world changes around us
but we still linger,
through wars and seasons we run
but we still linger,
it's so tempting
to climb that fence,
to see if you'd finally relent.”

Marian Renta

Music lyrics, Great Deep (2021) —"Linger"

“They do not live but linger.”

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Section 2, member 3, subsection 10.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

“When you linger in tormented darkness, remember, the dawning always arrives on time.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1981

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

Tennessee Williams Camino Real

Don Quixote in Prologue
Variant: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Source: Camino Real (1953)

“The song is over. But the melody lingers on.”

Haruki Murakami book A Wild Sheep Chase

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982)

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)

Widely misattributed and misquoted. Coolidge was quoting Tennyson in a June 3, 1925 speech to the US Naval Academy. Foundations of the Republic pp 237 : THE NAVY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE The poet reminds us that "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast ...
Misattributed

“And the world's like a science
And I'm like a secret
And I saw you lingering still, still
I saw you lingering still”

Zooey Deschanel (1980) American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter

"Lingering Still".
Volume Two (2010)

“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”

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