Quotes about miss
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“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

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“what you don't know, you don't miss”

Source: Love, Rosie

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“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.”

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

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“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.

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“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

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“I miss him so badly it hurts.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist
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“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

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“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

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“I missed her, the idea of her.”

Source: A Place Called Here

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“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

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“Certainty is missing the point entirely.”

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

Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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

Wendelin Van Draanen (1965) American writer

Source: Runaway

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

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

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“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

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“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)

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“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

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“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) <!-- cited either to "Comment" or as a comment, this may have been attributed to Frost at least as early as 1962-->
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.

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“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)

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“Never miss a party… good for the nerves--like celery.”

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

Source: Gatsby Girls

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“The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

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