Missing You quotes

A collection of quotes on the topic of sad quotes, missing you, goodbye, moving on.

Best missing you quotes

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

True origin unknown. Finest Hour described it as "not verifiable in any of the 50 million published words by and about him" ( Finest Hour, The Journal of Winston Churchill, Number 145, Winter 2009–10, p. 9 https://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/vol.01%20no.145.pdf). A similar quotation: "If you're going through hell, don't stop!" is "plausibly attributed" to Oregon self-help author and counselor Douglas Bloch (1990), according to Quote Investigator.
Misattributed
Variant: If you're going through hell, keep going
Source: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/14/keep-going/

“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To live is to love, to love is to live.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

“It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory”

Paulo Coelho book Aleph

Source: Aleph

“You can be in love and not be in a relationship.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1979

“Whenever you get there, there is no there there.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

Khalil Gibran book The Prophet

The Prophet (1923)

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

“I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”

Franz Kafka book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

Winston S. Churchill quote: “If you're going through hell, keep going.”

Missing You quotes

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk through my garden forever.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

For Wife , love , Relationship , Cute

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes, it is letting go.”

Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer

Thinking , Strong , Heartbreaking , Inspirational

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Variant: You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

Deep , Inspirational , Success , Motivational

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Family , Friendship , Cute , Powerful

“There is another world, but it is in this one.”

Paul Éluard (1895–1952) French poet

Il y a assurément un autre monde, mais il est dans celui-ci...
Œuvres complètes, vol. 1, Gallimard, 1968.

Motivational , Courageous , For Wife , love

“To love is to will the good of the other.”

Thomas Aquinas book Summa Theologica

II-II, q. 26, art. 6
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)

Courageous , For Wife , Sad , love

“the purpose of life is the life of purpose”

Robin S. Sharma book The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

Success , Depressing , Happy , Life

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

Love , Thinking , Memory

“No matter where you go, there you are”

Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach

Source: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes

For women , Deep , Happy , For Team

“There is, in the end, the letting go.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Sad , love , Wise , Heartbreaking

“To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.”

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer

Hallowed Ground (1825)
Variant: To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

For Father , Heart

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

Joan Didion The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

World , Personality

“I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Relationship

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Sad , Heartbreaking , Hurtful , Goodbye

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Heartbreaking , Goodbye , For Father , World

“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Heart

“When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Beauty , Thinking , Past

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

Robert Byrne (1928–2013) American chess player and writer

Success , Happy , Depressing , Life

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

Heartbreaking , Hurtful , Relationship , Goodbye

“As long as there's me
As long as there's you”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

"Where Are We Now?" (2013)
Song lyrics, The Next Day (2013)
Context: Where are we now?
Where are we now?
The moment you know
You know, you know
As long as there's sun
As long as there's sun
As long as there's rain
As long as there's rain
As long as there's fire
As long as there's fire
As long as there's me
As long as there's you

Sad , Goodbye , Heart Touching , Anniversary

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

As I Lay Dying (1930)

Thinking , Home

“What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.”

Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet

"Opposites" (1973)
Source: Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences

Heartbreaking

“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Carson McCullers (1917–1967) American writer

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Love

“I just… I just miss him. And hate being so alone. Does he miss me? He must”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: I just... I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
Source: The Hunger Games

Hate

“There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Variant: There is love in holding, and there is love in letting go.
Source: The Year of Pleasures

Deep , Moving On , Love

“All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.”

William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets

Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets

Dreams , Night

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Variant: You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Source: Pride and Prejudice

Pleasure , Thinking , Past

“You are my life, but you are not my purpose.”

Nina Malkin

Source: Swoon

For Wife , For Parents , Life

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

For women , Goodbye , Graduation , For Him

“That's for me to know, and for you to find out.”

Ally Carter Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy

Goodbye

“My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

For Wife , Love , Selfishness

“There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.”

Jim Crace book Harvest

Source: Harvest

“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Friendship , Goodbye , For Friend , For Bestfriend

“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“My memory loves you… it asks about you all the time.”

Jonathan Carroll (1949) novelist, short story writer

Love , Memory , Time

“Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Day of Absence, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Love , Sadness , Clothes

“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”

Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist

Human Options (1981)

Loneliness

“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: The Immortals Boxed Set

Moving On , Past , Future , Personality

“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Sad , Heartbreaking , Search , Forgetting

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

Salvador Plascencia The People of Paper

Source: The People of Paper

Good Night , Thinking

“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Forgetting , Sad

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Variant: A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
Source: Salem Falls

Moving On , Past , Future

“The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.”

Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet

Happy , Friendship , Goodbye , For Friend

“My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Heart

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

Motivational , Positive , Good Night , Moving On

“You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

For Wife , love , Good Night , Cute

“When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Forgetting

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Thinking , Forgetting

“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”

Amy Bloom (1953) Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist

Source: Away

Past

“The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.”

Barbara Kingsolver (1955) American author, poet and essayist

Friendship , For Friend , For Bestfriend

“I missed you so much," she breathed.
I tilted my head back and put my hands on her shoulders. I could hardly believe this was happening. I was finally getting to touch her. To kiss her. It was all happening. "I missed you, too.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: He's So Not Worth It

Kiss

“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Heartbreaking , Friendship , Cute , For Friend

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

For Father , Light

“That's all I have to say about that.”

Winston Groom Forrest Gump

Source: Forrest Gump

For women

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Se vive con la esperanza de llegar a ser un recuerdo.
Voces (1943)

Hope , Hope , Memory

“To see is to think, and to think is to see.”

Richard Serra (1939) American sculptor

Charlie Rose interview (2001)

Deep , Thinking

“You are beautiful and you are alone.”

Nico (1938–1988) German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superstars

Afraid

love , Friendship , Relationship , Cute

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Semper in absentes felicior aestus amantes.

Propertius (-47–-16 BC) Latin elegiac poet

II, xxxiii, 43.
Elegies

Relationship , Heart

“Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
And frustrate hope severer than despair.”

William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist

"Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile", line 35.

Sad , Goodbye , Love , Death

“No one can explain this to another just”

Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic

The Exemplar, The Life of the Servant
Context: No one can explain this to another just In this wild mountain region of the 'where' beyond God there is an abyss full of play and feeling for all pure spirits with words. No one can explain this to another just with words. One knows it by experiencing it One knows it by experiencing it.

“How much more of this can there possibly be?”

Ian Darke (1950) British association football and boxing commentator

Brazil v. United States http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=r1PlC9mj-N0 (10 July 2011).
2010s, 2011, 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
Context: Just incredible! Look at Hope Solo celebrate! There is an American party going on, all around the terraces! Surely the whistle's going to go any second, and it will be a penalty shootout. Abby Wambach in the one hundred and twenty-second minute. Well that does match the drama of the men's World Cup last year, and the Landon Donovan goal which saved the USA against Algeria, doesn't it? Well, well, well! And the goal was scored in the time added on for the largely bogus injury, we think, to Érika. Is there some kind of poetic justice in that? It's not finished yet, though. Still the referee plays on, and here's Marta again! Solo beats it away; it will be a corner. How much more of this can there possibly be? It is over! It will be a penalty shoot-out! An incredible finish, one of the great climaxes to any World Cup match! Brazil are denied at the death! A ten-woman USA save it! Wow, we need to get our breath back. So let's go back to Bob Ley for a moment.

“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.”

Ralph Smart

Happy , Cute , Future , Happiness