Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

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.

William Shakespeare

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Gone - flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

Amy Lowell

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.

Adrienne Rich

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Thucydides

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence.

Alice Hoffman

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

Ben Jonson

In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.

Aaron Spelling

You know what shows today are missing? Stars.

Alan Hansen

He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.

Denise Crosby

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Bo Gritz

I state for the record that I have never sought funds from any POW family, nor led them to believe in any way that we were going on a mission to rescue their specific missing loved one.

Jami Gertz

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

Edward Norton

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

Bear Bryant

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

Diane Ackerman

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Desiderius Erasmus

What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

C. S. Lewis

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

C. S. Lewis

No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

C. S. Lewis

If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.

C. S. Lewis

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Cecelia Ahern

But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.

Carrie Fisher

I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.

Carl Sagan

If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?