Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who…
— Susanna Clarke
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I'm a girl; of course I have a built-in miss-o-meter.
— Alexandra Adornetto
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We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody…
— David Foster Wallace
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Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss. The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards…
— William Golding
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The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until…
— Jenny Valentine
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Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.
— Steve Hamilton
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I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.
— Markus Zusak
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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of…
— Andrew Sean Greer
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But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.
— Elizabeth Scott
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Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from…
— Frederick Buechner
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Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.
— Clarice Lispector
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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…
— Cassandra Clare
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What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part.
— Gail Caldwell
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There is no way I’m going out in public like this!†It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I wake up in the morning and I see that flower, with the dew on its petals, and at the way it's folding out, and…
— Dan Buettner
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Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying…
— Dan Buettner
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I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.
— Jodi Picoult
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Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.
— Anne Rivers Siddons
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