Quotations about Missing Someone
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. ~Edna St Vincent Millay Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. ~Kay Knudsen Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated. ~Lamartine All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee to me. ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XLIII" Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? ~Richard Bach How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December's bareness everywhere! ~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet XCVII" Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. ~Henry David Thoreau If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden. ~Claudia Ghandi Within you I lose myself... Without you I find myself Wanting to be lost again. ~Author Unknown Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell. ~Emily Dickinson, "Parting" Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart. ~Alfred Tennyson Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. ~William Cowper What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you. ~Richard Wilbur No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. ~Robert Southey Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color. ~W.S. Merwin, "Separation" Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream. ~George Linley Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.... ~Amy Lowell, "The Taxi" Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, We ought to be together, you and I. ~Henry Alford, "You and I" (Thanks, Jenn) As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. ~Alcibiades Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou wert by. ~George Linley Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. ~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ~Hans Nouwens
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. ~Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? ~Frances Anne Kemble I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. ~Adrienne Rich I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. ~Amy Lowell, "The Letter" I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~Author Unknown To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne Another day, another pang that you are afar. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. ~Ben Jonson The joy of meeting pays the pangs of absence; else who could bear it? ~Nicholas Rowe Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory— Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose-leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos. ~Charles M. Schulz Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. ~Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it's one day further from the last time you saw each other, it's one day closer to the next time you will. ~Author Unknown We only part to meet again. ~John Gay She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be. ~Francis Thompson When you are not at hand to kiss away my fears I cannot choose but be wretched. ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens One kind kiss before we part, Drop a tear, and bid adieu; Though we sever, my fond heart Till we meet shall pant for you. ~Robert Dodsley As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson Ye flowers that drop, forsaken by the spring, Ye birds that, left by summer, cease to sing, Ye trees that fade, when Autumn heats remove, Say, is not absence death to those who love? ~Alexander Pope A goodbye isn't painful unless you're never going to say hello again. ~Author Unknown Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again after moments or a lifetime is certain for those who are friends. ~Richard Bach Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! ~Francis Kazinczy Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too. ~Author Unknown Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, translated from French The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. ~Norman Cousins It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. ~Eric Hoffer I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes |