Quotes about miss
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“When I turn around, he cups my face in his hands and he kisses me so deeply that I don't know who is breathing for who, but his mouth and tongue taste like warm honey. I don't know how long it lasts, but when I let go of him, I miss it already.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Kiss

“I want you to admit just once what you feel
for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even
a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry
for anything.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Feeling

“After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Thinking, Heart

“Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy?”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

“It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“Miss. My. Wife.”

Julia Quinn (1970) American novelist

Source: To Sir Phillip, With Love

“Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half.”

Jane Austen book Northanger Abbey

Source: Northanger Abbey

Women, Understanding, Nature, Thinking

“Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Problem, Thinking

“Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Happiness, Books, Flying

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Source: Handle with Care

Travel

“I miss us, too. I always have, and probably always will”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

“Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

First lines.
Source: Middlemarch (1871)

Beauty

“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, Missing You

“You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them."

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Clean Sweep

“If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: The Art of Travel

Love

“Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Life, People, Angels

“I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.”

Wendy Mass (1967) American children's writer

Source: Finally

“Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss you miss, you'll land in the stars.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Variant: Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Star

“In a field
I am the absence
of field.
This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”

Mark Strand (1934–2014) Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator

Source: New Selected Poems

“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

People, World

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Love

“This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Women, Tea

“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.”

Borís Pasternak (1890–1960) Russian writer

Life, Heart

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Family, Feeling, Family

“That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Angel Falls

Life, Chance, Waiting

“You can't miss what you never had.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Source: Polo Is My Life

“*Oh, I know I could say were through
And tell myself I'm over you
But even if I made a vow
I promise not to miss you now
And try to hide the truth inside
I fell cause I, I just can't live a lie”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Truth, Lie

“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“It was like reaching for someone's hand, then missing their fingers, or even their arm, and hitting their shoulder instead. But no matter. You hang on tight anyway.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Stay because you want to be here. Stay because we would miss you. And stay because you can belong in more than one place, and one of your places is with us.”

Cynthia Lord (1950) American children's writer

Source: Touch Blue

“Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

“Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?”

John Irving book The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

Strong, Learning

“Percy’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs
and arms used to be. That’s how his mind
felt—like his missing memories were aching.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Pain, Memory

“There aren’t many funny bits in Mr Tolkien either,’ Matilda said.
‘Do you think that all children’s books ought to have funny bits in them?’ Miss Honey asked.
‘I do,’ Matilda said. ‘Children are not so serious as grown-ups and love to laugh.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Love, Children, Books, Thinking

“If you're not reading - with your heart as well as your brain - you will be one stupid grown up. Even worst, you'll be missing out on one of the best experiences you can possibly have. Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Christmas Wedding

People, Books, Stupidity, Reading

“I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!”

"That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.”

Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history.”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

History, Birthday

“Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Beauty

“Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.”

Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Love, For Mother, For Father

“Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”

Jack Canfield (1944) American writer

Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul

Failure, Chance, For Team

“We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

“I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“I never miss a good chance to shut up”

James Patterson book Along Came a Spider

Source: Along Came a Spider

Chance

“Do you miss Susie?"
Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her, because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt.
"More than anyone will ever know.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“You seemed so far away," Miss Honey whispered, awestruck.

"Oh, I was. I was flying past the stars on silver wings," Matilda said. "It was wonderful.”

Roald Dahl book Matilda

Source: Matilda

Star, Past, Flying

“We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world.”

Maya Angelou book Letter to My Daughter

We Had Him (2009)
Source: Letter to My Daughter

World

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Love, Happiness, Sun

“Let me get this straight. First you decide I'm a demon because of a power I didn't ask for and don't even understand. Then when that falls through you label me a fallen sybil and a ho. Am I missing something or do you just not like me”

Karen Chance book Touch the Dark

Source: Touch the Dark

Understanding

“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Life, Courage, Wine

“I dipped into his brain. He wasn't happy that I wasn't wearing a bra, because my boobs distracted him. He was thinking I was a bit too curvy for his taste. He was thinking he'd better not think about me that way anymore. He was missing his wife.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

Happiness, Way, Thinking

“you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece”

Barbara Kingsolver book The Lacuna

Source: The Lacuna

Personality

“We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Stay

Truth, Beauty

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Love, Life, Question

“I'm going to miss you while you're gone.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

“I miss my suits…”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now”

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

Feeling, Thinking, Sad

“Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'…
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Wisdom, Drink, Wine

“I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”

Augusten Burroughs book Running with Scissors

Source: Running with Scissors

Feeling, Loss

“The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.”

Manolo Blahnik (1942) Spanish fashion designer

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise (1984)

Life, People

“But I love him."
"So love him."
"But I miss him."
"So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Variant: So miss him. Send him some love and light every time you think about him, then drop it.
Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Thinking, Light, Time

“Some of these days,
Oh, you'll miss me honey”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …

“You’re not dead,
but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia,
caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beat-
ing heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me.
I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Variant: You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. You’re a ghost with a beating heart. Soon you’ll cross the border and be with me. I’m so stoked. I miss you wicked.
Source: Wintergirls

World, Heart, Dead

“Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Fear, Jealousy, Training

“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Time

“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

Missing You

“Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.”

“I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?”

“The way you tell it, it is.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

Truth, Way

“Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.”

Anne Rivers Siddons (1936–2019) novelist from the United States

Source: Fault Lines

Star

“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Love, Fear, Hurt

“Then I turned the page and at the top it said THINGS I MISS ABOUT M and there was a list of 15 things, and the first was THE WAY HE HOLDS THINGS. I did not understand how you can miss the way somebody holds things.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Way, Understanding

“If watching television doesn't hasten death, it surely manages to make death very inviting; for television so shamelessly sentimentalizes and romanticizes death that it makes the living feel they have missed something - just by staying alive.”

John Irving book A Prayer for Owen Meany

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany

Death, Feeling

“I’m always thinking about what I’m missing. Even when I’m happy with what I have.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Saving Zoë

Happiness, Thinking

“Then why are you here?” Emma demanded. “Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don’t date trees.”

“I am not a tree.” Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

Tree, Night

“The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“If I were at any time to set out on a career of deceit, it would be of Miss Marple that I should be afraid.”

Agatha Christie (1890–1976) English mystery and detective writer

Time

“All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.
Source: City of Bones

Life, World, Family, Feeling

“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Drop Dead Gorgeous

“Fine" I said icily. "I'll do this. but i want it noted that I'm doing this against my will."

"I think we already figured that out, Miss Hathaway.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

Thinking