Quotes about miss
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“You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more…”

Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books

Love, Life, People, Cry

“Police are inevitably corrupted…. Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”

Frank Herbert book God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“Never miss a chance… to keep your mouth shut.”

Robert Newton Peck book A Day No Pigs Would Die

Source: A Day No Pigs Would Die

Chance

“Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. "Ah… yes. John Green."
"Jason Grace."
"Whatever," the god said.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

God, Help

“Don't confine yourself to a select group of friends, often known as a clique. Cliques by definition leave people out. Lock yourself into one, and you'll never know how many terrific friendships you may be missing.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Friendship, People

“I guess, really thinking about it, I always assumed when you missed someone, it was tangible… something real you could grab and hold on to, but it's a not-there feeling.”

Norma Fox Mazer (1931–2009) American children's writer

Source: After the Rain

Feeling, Thinking

“Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Search, Waiting

“I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be - Okay, I’ll say it again - loving you, but I won’t abandon myseld for you. I cannot be faithful to you without being faithful to myself.”

Jerry Spinelli book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Love, Faith, Smile, Memory

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Pain, Idea, Success, Training

“You could grow up in the city where history was made and still miss it all.”

Jonathan Lethem book The Fortress of Solitude

Source: The Fortress of Solitude

History

“The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“what you don't know, you don't miss”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

Jodi Picoult book Sing You Home

Source: Sing You Home

Feeling, Understanding, Loss

“You're getting into some kind of shape, cop."
Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."
Rhage fired a towel at the male. "Just pointing out your beer gut's gone."
It was a Scotch pot. And I don't miss it.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Beer

“Bubba made a sound of disapproval "You're not supposed to be kissing on anybody else, Miss Sookie" he said "Bill said it was okay, but I don't like it.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead to the World

Source: Dead to the World

Kiss

“We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Beauty, Angels, Boy

“I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Life, God, Religion, Drawing

“It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Variant: Someday being with Dex will be a distant memory. This fact makes me sad too. Its the initial stages of grief that seem to be worst but in some ways, Its sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they're missed in your life.
Source: Something Borrowed

Life, World, Way, Time

“I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.”

Anna Kamieńska (1920–1986) Poet, writer and translator

Understanding, Learning

“Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life.”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader

Life, World, Success, Personality

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Life, Law, Change, Past

“Don't you miss the days when America was just morally bankrupt?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

But I'm Not Wrong (2010)
Source: Does Anybody Have a Problem With That? The Best of Politically Incorrect

“I miss him so badly it hurts.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

Hurt

“Phryne was getting out of the car. Dot closed her eyes. Miss Fisher was about to happen to someone again.”

Kerry Greenwood (1954) Australian crime writer

Source: Dead Man's Chest

Cars

“He was the one she was doing all this for, but sometimes she missed him so much it felt like she swallowed broken glass.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.”

Ally Carter book Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover

Way

“Because it is senior year I have begun to see things as potential absences. The things I love will become the things I'll miss.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

Love

“Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Variant: It is because the spirit knows deep down that all lives intersect. That death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else. And in that small distance, lives are changed.
Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala

Death, Change

“Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

Wise

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)”

Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Heart

“The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Truth, Silence

“Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential spark was now missing.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Sense, Dead

“Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.”

Julio Cortázar book Hopscotch

Source: Hopscotch

Imagination, Sleep, Universe, Change

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Thinking

“Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Boy

“If Paris were missing, he´d want the same guys looking for him. Seriously, the only team capable of getting better results would be Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers and Hannibal”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Seduction

Guy

“… there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann”

Suzanne Brockmann (1960) American writer

Source: Dark of Night

Night

“Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it's something in between, I guess
it's closing time.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Death, Sex, Feeling, Freedom

“Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States

Source: The Painted Drum

Intelligence, Bird, Light

“I sure do miss that woman. Smart. Funny. Sweet. She never gave me a moment's trouble."

"Gosh, I'm sorry about that. I knew it was boring between you two, but not that bad.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Call Me Irresistible

“I missed her, the idea of her.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Source: A Place Called Here

Idea

“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Gloria Gaither (1942) American gospel songwriter, author & scholar

Way, Chance, Flying

“Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?"
"My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Miss Erstwhile: “It is such a relief, Mr. Nobley, to already know that you find this exercise vulgar and your partner unworthy. It saves us the idle chitchat.”
Mr. Nobley: “And yet you chat away.”

Shannon Hale book Austenland

Source: Austenland

Exercises

“I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: The Year of Pleasures

Life, Hope

“If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Life

“It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.”

Toni Morrison book Sula

Source: Sula

“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”

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

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

“Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.”

Kristin Armstrong (1973) American road bicycle racer

Peace, Feeling, Heart, Personality

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”

Judith Butler (1956) American philosopher and gender theorist

“Hey, Effie, watch this!" says Peeta. He tosses his fork over his shoulder and literally licks his plate clean whit his tongue making loud, satisfied sounds. Then he blows a kiss out to her in general and calls, "We miss you, Effie!”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Kiss

“What do you know about dragons?”
“They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice.”
His grinned again. “I do miss the virgins.”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: You Slay Me

“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“I miss school.
What’s wrong with me?”

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: Runaway

School

“It doesn’t change what we are to each other. It’s like there’s always been a piece of my soul missing, and it’s inside you, Clary.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Soul, Change

“I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: “You’re blue.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Thinking

“Maybe I didn't always know what I was missing, but it was you. Always you.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

“This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean--" Damn, what the hell was her name?”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

Hell, Time

“Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

People, Time

“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

Source: If You Come Softly

Life, Thinking, Time, Personality

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”

Yann Martel book Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

Love, Dreams, Heart, Goodbye

“Ranger appeared in the bathroom doorway and I was too relieved to be embarrassed. "I appreciate you coming out in the middle of the night," I said.

Ranger smiled. "I didn't want to miss seeing you chained up naked.”

Janet Evanovich book One for the Money

Source: One for the Money

Smile, Appearance, Night

“I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said.

My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Smile

“Maybe if I prayed to Miss Marple, she’d hook me up with a clue”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.”

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

Housing

“Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.”

Kirby Larson book Hattie Big Sky

Source: Hattie Big Sky

“When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Interview in O : The Oprah Magazine (November 2000)

Personality, Gratitude

“You will hardly know who I am or what I mean,
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.

Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.”

Walt Whitman Song of Myself

Source: Song of Myself

Health, Search, Waiting

“Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

Life, Feeling

“The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

“If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.”

E.M. Forster (1879–1970) English novelist

“As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point.”

Jean Ferris (1939–2015) American children's writer

Source: Once Upon a Marigold

Dogs

“Cripes Miss Wilcox, they're not guns,' I said.
No, they're not Mattie, they're books. And a hundred times more dangerous.”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

Books, Time

“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

As quoted in Bartlett's Book of Love Quotations (1994) 
General sources
Context: The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended — and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Family

“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Women, Feeling, Learning

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Variant: The more that you read,
The more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
The more places you’ll go.
Source: I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978)

Learning, Reading

“The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.”

Priscilla Shirer (1974) American writer

God, Time, Future