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Quotes About Missing

I had a serious conversation with the flowers and they told me where they came from. I was right. They were from the man who was secreted away in my heart. I missed him so much. I couldn't wait to see him again. But, at the same time, I was scared of him. Whenever I thought of him a little door in my heart banged shut and I felt like crying. I had no idea what was going on.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
By 1945, New Guinea was home to more missing airplanes than any country on earth.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time.
~ Murakami, Haruki
Sometimes the missing thing is the glue that holds everything else in place.
~ Unknown
Anytime we worked a quilt, it was the thing to do to set out an empty chair. It was for the missing woman. The friend who might call, just as you'd sat to quilt, and who might bring a loaf of bread, lend a hand, do a square.... There are times I miss the things I haven't done in my life. The things that Savannah is so good at doing, like taking up the empty chair.
~ Nancy E. Turner
Life is a grand puzzle, with pieces interlocking, pieces elusive, pieces missing. But in the end, God puts it all together and we see the full picture. (Sean Culver)~pg 210
~ Unknown
A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of "What am I missing?
~ Unknown
The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.
~ Neil Kinnock
Hospitals are often at the centre of things ('choirs and MPs visit them'), but 'homes are on the margins', so there is often a sense of being 'shut away out of sight; of loneliness'. Old age can push people to the edge of society; dementia often pushes them right out of sight, and then out of mind. They are the missing persons.
~ Unknown
The other bomb disappeared
~ Unknown
You miss her, don't you?" "Yes.
~ Osamu Dazai
I can't find my mother
~ Unknown
fuck wishing. you're missing the ambition on your mission.
~ Unknown
There are always things to miss," said Maggie. "No matter where you are.
~ Patricia MacLachlan
Religious and civic leaders in the Black community held protests in front of Dahmer's apartment and called for a federal investigation into police education and training. The gay community also clamored for recognition of any current police practices and intimated that police failed to investigate these crimes properly because they didn't care if a few Blacks and/or gays went missing.
~ Unknown
To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle
~ Patrick Ness
He knew she wouldn't be in there – he couldn't hear the kettle boiling, which she always did first thing – but he'd found himself asking for her a lot lately when he entered rooms in the house.
~ Patrick Ness
The ache of it. The ache of missing Gudmmund is so great he can barely stand it. Of missing how safe being with him felt, how easy it was, how funny and relaxed. Of missing the physical stuff, of course, but more than that, the intimacy, the closeness. Of missing just being held like that, cared for.
~ Patrick Ness
No te calles por mi culpa, Kvothe -dijo con dulzura-. Echaría de menos el sonido de tu voz.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
El silencio más obvio era una calma hueca y resonante, constituida por las cosas que faltaban
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We have missed him in the sunshine, in the storm, in the twilight, ever since.
~ Paul Auster
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
~ Peggy Noonan
he'd gone to Kennedy with her and kissed her goodbye tenderly and said he would miss her. 'I'll miss you too,' said Fleur, hugging him hard at passport control.
~ Unknown
continued failure at winning their regard forces her to conclude that she is fatally flawed. She is loveless not because of her mistakes, but because she is a mistake. She can only see what is wrong with or missing in her.
~ Unknown