Missing Quotes
4020 quotes by 2709 authors
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Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
— Confucius
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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…
— Cecelia Ahern
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You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.
— Anne Fadiman
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I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible…
— Leif Enger
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Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your…
— Arlene J. Chai
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You two were in a cave together?’ said Miss Simpkins in horror. ‘Yes,’ said Kate, ‘and it was very, very dark.
— Kenneth Oppel
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Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss…
— Joyce Meyer
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The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
— Sarah Dessen
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There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
— Jo Walton
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Don't you miss it?" I say. "Being free." He laughs.
— Lauren DeStefano
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Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being…
— Rick Yancey
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So you've been gone a couple days,' Alison said. 'Hmm, what'd you miss...A celebrity did drugs. Politicians disagreed. A different celebrity wore a bikini that…
— John Green
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They miss the whisper that runs any day in your mind, "Who are you really, wanderer?"-- and the answer you have to give no matter…
— William Stafford
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and…
— Jasper Fforde
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Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who?
— Louise Rennison
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No other life forms know they are alive, and neither do they know they will die. This is our curse alone. Without this hex upon…
— Thomas Ligotti
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I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't…
— H P Lovecraft
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I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest…
— Jacqueline Woodson
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