Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Physician, Poet, Essayist
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
Missing You quotes
Missing You
147 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aeschylus
Playwright
"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief."
Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss."
Bette Davis
Actress
"It's true we don't know what we've got until its gone, but we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
Amy Lowell
Poet
"I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it."
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"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
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"Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime."
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"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."
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"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
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"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss."
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"Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book."
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"I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night."
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
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"Love is space and time measured by the heart."
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"Son, what kind of pitch would you like to miss?"
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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."
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"All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."
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"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."
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"For everything you gain, you lose something."
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"It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement - that you can't get anywhere else. And the speed that the people move. It's so different from other places."
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"I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons."
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"You do not know what you can miss before you try."
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"Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing."
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"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
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"What people think of you is none of your business."
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