"You never stop loving someone. You just learn to live without them."
Missing Someone quotes
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
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"When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you."
"I'm still here, I'm still alive, I'm still blessed, on my way to my destiny, because the favor of God is on my life."
"For everything you gain, you lose something."
"I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons."
"Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle."
"Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?"
"It is said that when you miss someone... then love will come when you meet again... Just like the game of hide and seek, no matter where it hides or even if you can't see it... He must be there waiting somewhere for me...Amid the countless chaos... Just like the sincerest prayers... two people in love will surely meet again."
"It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know."
"When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum."
"Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh."
"I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with."
"Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone."
"People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when you're missing someone or you're pining for someone or you're forgetting someone or you're trying to process what just happened."
"If you miss someone too much you turn into them... though it doesn't seem to work for the Christian Church."