Missing Something Quotes

• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

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• When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Grateful, Missing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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• That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

  Pittacus Lore

  Missing Someone, Way, You Miss Me

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• I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Morning, Silly, Missing

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Why do you think you are missing something you never had?

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Missing

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.25, Penguin

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• That no matter what i did, I would always be missing something else. And the only way to live, the only way to be happy, was to make sure the things I didn't miss meant more to me than the things I missed.

  David Levithan

  Missing, Way To Live, Matter

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.87, Egmont UK

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• Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Missing, Statistics, Has Beens

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1993). “The New Well-tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.

  Eric Liddell

  Missing, Second Best

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• I felt like I was missing something. Missing you more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.

  David Levithan

  Missing, Next, Happens

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• So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.

  Jami Gertz

  Missing You, Thinking, Age

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• A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn't spin a bit of magic, it's missing something.

  Esther Freud

  Writing, Missing, Magic

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Esther Freud, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I don't like to sleep. I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

  Vince McMahon

  Sleep, Missing

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• I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

  Ivan Lendl

  Missing You, Sports, Sorry

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• Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.

  Judith Butler

  Missing, Faces, Undone

  Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.19, Psychology Press

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• I'm missing something when I'm sleeping.

  Vince McMahon

  Sleep, Missing

  "9 Examples Of WWE CEO Vince McMahon's Insane Work Ethic" by Aaron Taube, www.sfgate.com. August 31, 2014.

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• Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am

  Eric Liddell

  Christian, Jesus, Here I Am

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• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Believe, Feel Better, Thinking

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• So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

  Joseph Jarman

  Missing You, Live Concerts, Important

  Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. October 1999.

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• Somehow, being with Brittany brings something to my life that's missing, something ... right.

  Simone Elkeles

  Missing, Brittany

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

  Peter Høeg

  Expression, Numbers, Missing

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• Your interests change. I used to feel that if I spent evenings reading, or watching a film, or just doing nothing up here at the house, I would probably be missing something that was a lot more fun. I don't have that sense anymore.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Reading, House

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

  Slash Coleman

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• I don't know why people would be interested in what I do. Maybe they feel how I feel. Maybe it's because we're all missing something, and I just happen to wear that on my sleeve.

  Wesley Eisold

  People, Missing, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

  Frans de Waal

  Nature, Science, Animal

  "Are We in Anthropodenial?" by Frans de Waal, discovermagazine.com. July 1, 1997.

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