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Quotes About Missing

All this at the last I dimly saw, but an autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing. We think we write definitely of those parts of our nature that are dead and therefore beyond change, but that which writes is still changing - still in doubt.
~ Quentin Crisp
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss his sight whose breath touches my sleep?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
There's much talk in popular culture about finding happiness—as though if you aren't grinning ear to ear 24 hours a day you're somehow missing out on life.
~ Rachel C. Weingarten
Every day, the sun comes out and the sky's always blue. That's what I miss about Denver.
~ Dikembe Mutombo
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.
~ Robert Kurson
I don't know. We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing. I looked around. The only thing I positively knew was gone was the books I'd burned in ten or twelve years. So I thought books might help.
~ Ray Bradbury
Nuk e di. I kemi të gjitha ç'duhen për të qenë të lumtur, e prapë s'jemi dot të lumtur. Diçka mungon. Kërkova përreth dhe pashë se e vetmja gjë që më mungonte ishin librat, ata që unë i kisha djegur gjatë gjithë këtyre dhjetë a njëzet vjetve të fundit. Dhe atëherë mendova se ndoshta janë librat ata që do të më ndihmojnë.
~ Ray Bradbury
Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.
~ Joss Whedon
People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.
~ Walter Lippmann
If you come upon an observation that does not seem to fit the model, you assume that there must be a perfectly good explanation that you are somehow missing. You give the theory the benefit of the doubt, trusting the community of experts who have accepted it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little. We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there is.
~ Daniel Kahneman
We often fail to allow for the possibility that evidence that should be critical to our judgment is missing—what we see is all there is.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Sabes lo que es un suspiro? —Supongo que me lo dirás. —Es el aire que te sobra por alguien que te falta.
~ Dante Gebel
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.
~ Dave Isay
Imagine, if you will, the dispiriting experience of listening to an awful cover of one of your favorite songs. That's how I felt sitting through Die Another Day, the 20th official outing for [James Bond]. This is a train wreck of an action film ... What's missing from this movie? Any real sense that we're watching 007 rather than a generic spy in a tuxedo.
~ James Berardinelli
He still felt her absence; it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.
~ James Dashner
I've thought about you every second since they took you away.
~ James Dashner
You love nothing. You are incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly.
~ James Goldman
this is the last house in summer and now is the double loneliness of missing a party you don't even want to be at.
~ James Richardson
Her eyes--lined with black makeup--stared blankly at the ceiling; and her tan was obviously sprayed on since her skin had a healthy apricot glow even though the top of her head was missing.
~ Donna Tartt
And deep within him, missing its accustomed tread, his heart paused, and gave one single stroke, as if on an anvil.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.
~ Douglas Adams
There was a distinct absence of anything female in the room--the same sort of absence that a missing picture leaves behind it on a wall.
~ Douglas Adams
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.
~ Jeff Bridges