Quotes about miss
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“I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Leaving Time

People

“Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Suicide

“I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.”

Tana French book The Likeness

Source: The Likeness

“i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Pain

“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Life, Time, For Her

“Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I’d missed my buddies!”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

Death, Pain, Search

“He fought as he wished he had all those years ago, for the chance he had missed. In that moment between storms--when the rain stilled and the winds drew in their breaths to blow--he danced with the slayer of kings, and somehow held his own.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Chance, Dance

“I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.”

Chuck Palahniuk (1962) American novelist, essayist

Interview with the San Francisco Bay Guardian (2002-10-30)

People

“I don't believe in God, but I miss him.”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

God

“You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Life

“Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Sorcerer in the North

“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

Life

“Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret the inanity of what we say, and the missed opportunity of what we do not.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

Dead

“I was hoping they'd put up flyers like they do for lost cats," he said. "Missing, one stunningly attractive teenage boy. Answers to 'Jace' or 'Hot Stuff.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Hope, Boy, Cats

“Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)”

Sherman Alexie book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Love, Game

“Are you the welcoming committee? Or has Jeremy finally chained you up to the front gate where you belong?"
"I missed you too.”

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”

David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest

Source: Infinite Jest

Feeling

“Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounded like a quiet tragedy.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God (1994)

People, Chance, Time, Hurt

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author

Men

“Our eyelashes brushed like they would weave together by themselves, turning us into one wild thing. I say, “I think I missed you before I met you even.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Thinking

“God, I miss you,” he said in a voice that cracked. “Every night. Every day…”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

God, Night

“I can't say for sure, because I have no experience, but -- well, 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

“Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Life, World, Thinking

“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Hurt

“You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant."
"We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Time

“As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.”

Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer

Source: Tropic of Cancer

Passion

“Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something”

James Redfield (1950) American author, lecturer, screenwriter and film producer

Source: The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights

Life, Way, Knowledge, Sense

“If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Thinking, Time

“She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.”

Kate Chopin (1850–1904) American author

Source: The Awakening and Selected Stories

Sun

“It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Someone to Watch Over Me

Love, Heart

“I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford."
Me and Shrek, we're onions.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Tribute

Girl

“Please do not strain yourself, Miss Doyle. I won't have my girls going cross-eyed in the name of art.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Art, Girl

“You're gonna miss each and every shot you can't be bothered to take. That's not living life--that's just being a tourist. Take every shot, Kate. If it's worth caring about, no matter how impossible you think it is--you take the shot.”

Matt Fraction (1975) American comic book writer

Source: Hawkeye, Volume 1: My Life as a Weapon

Life, Thinking

“Jeeves, you really are a specific dream-rabbit."

"Thank you, miss. I am glad to have given satisfaction.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Code of the Woosters

Source: The Code of the Woosters

Dreams

“We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Books, Reading

“Missing rubs the soul raw.”

Sarah Dunant (1950) English writer, broadcaster and critic

Source: Mapping The Edge

Soul

“Did you miss me?’
“A little bit,” she said with a shrug.
“You have tears running down your cheeks,” he said with a grin. “I think you missed me more than a little.”

Robyn Carr American writer

Source: Wild Man Creek

Thinking, Tear

“There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.”

Jo Walton (1964) Welsh Canadian writer

“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

Life

“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“But when the other end of the line picked up, it was his voicemail that answered, not the man himself. "I know how devastated you must be to miss me," his cheery voice said, "but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony as soon as possible.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“I also want to tell him how much I already miss him. But that wouldn't be fair on my part.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Parting

“Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

Life, Flowers, Despair

“I suppose the things that you always take for granted, that you don't even notice, are what you miss the most.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

“Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Love, Children, Hell

“Oh, China. How I have missed you.'
'And I have missed you, Eliza. But don't worry, next time my aim will be better.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

Time

“What's your hurry?"
Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Time

“I say good-bye to the part of myself that misses him so much.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Parting

“If anything happens, Marcus will save you. Won't you, Marcus? Hale asked, looking up at the man, who nodded.

It would be an honor, Miss.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Travel

“It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure out who I’m supposed to be… to find my place in the world before I have to leave it. I’m afraid of what I’ll miss.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

World, Time

“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Life

“You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror.
‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.”

Kenneth Oppel book Airborn

Source: Airborn

“If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

Home

“Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Hercule Poirot: I am an imbecile. I see only half of the picture.
Miss Lemon: I don't even see that.”

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

“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”

John Scalzi book Old Man's War

Source: Old Man's War

Hate, Dead

“It was good to be here with Jem and Cecily an Charlotte, to be surrounded by their affection, but without her there would always be something missing, a Tessa-shaped part chiseled out of his heart that he could never get back.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Heart, Parting

“I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

World

“Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die, die..”

Laurie Faria Stolarz (1972) American writer

Source: White Is for Magic

Cry

“I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

Life, Men, Suffering, Sad

“Miss me? Bet you did… so would I.”

Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing...

Source: And Another Thing...

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“Simon kept pace beside Clary for a few moments without speaking before he said, “So what did I miss? Naked dancing ladies?”
Clary thought of the male faerie‘s torn-open ribs and shuddered. “Nothing that pleasant.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Dance

“It looks like Animal and Miss piggy had sex," I said. "And this was the spawn."
"My eyes!" Boomer cried. "My eyes! I can't stop seeing it now that you've said it!”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Sex, Animals

“Everything around me makes me miss you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“It's like my garden, love. Everything grows. Including love. And with that growing everyday how can you expect missing her to ever fade away? Everything builds, including our ability to cope with it. That's how we keep going.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Love

“Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Lie

“Stars should not be seen alone. That's why there are so many. Two people should stand together and look at them. One person alone will surely miss the good ones.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

Source: Dry

People, Star, Personality

“Charonte are guarding a Dimme? Is the world coming to an end and I missed the memo? (Stryker)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

World

“No, Miss Palmer. What is bizarre is that I currently have a.”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Curse the Dawn

“His right ear still held both studs, and I wondered who had the missing earring. I would have asked, but was afraid he’d tell me Ivy had it.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: A Fistful of Charms

“I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Feeling, Home

“… real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

Thinking, Loneliness

“I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sadness, Sense

“By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.”

John Berendt Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Source: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Birthday, Suicide, Strong, Dead

“You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."

"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.”

Judy Blume Summer Sisters

Source: Summer Sisters

Love, Understanding, Freedom

“She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

“Miss," she gasped, and then her eyes went toWill. She clapped a hand over her mouth, turned, and bolted back into the house.
"Oh, dear," said Tessa.
"I have that effect on women," Will said.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Women, Housing

“The missing aren't missing, they're only departed,
All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

“Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement.
"Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Jacob's Faith

Hell, Wolf

“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”

Scott Corbett (1913–2006) American children's writer

Life, People, Books, Feeling

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Waiting

“Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

Source: The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story

Life

“HI. I’m from Arkansas, the cantaloupe state. And tonight, I hope you will hold my melons close to your heart and vote me your Miss Teen Dream.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Dreams, Hope, Heart

“It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty…”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Beauty, Intelligence, Learning

“The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”

Marilynne Robinson book Lila

Source: Lila

Learning

“Quiet Pride:
There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my daughter, though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Daughters

“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Gods, how I’ve missed you. (Stryker)
I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: One Silent Night

God, Hate, Heart

“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”

David Foster Wallace book The Broom of the System

Source: The Broom of the System

Feeling, Home, Thinking, Time

“When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.”

Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Smile, Dreams, Distant, Waiting

“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Question

“Why do you think you are missing something you never had?”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

Thinking

“… that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together”

Daniel Handler book Why We Broke Up

Source: Why We Broke Up

Love, Hate

“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, People, Cry

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Quotes about miss
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