Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thucydides

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

Tryon Edwards

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

W. S. Merwin

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Emily Giffin

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.

Taylor Swift

I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For everything you gain, you lose something.

Paul McCartney

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

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.

Jim Crace

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

Mark Richt

He's a big-league talent. I wish he wasn't a freshman. Hopefully, we won't have to play him for a while.

Woody Allen

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

William James

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

Roald Dahl

I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems. I couldn't face the embarrassment, and anyway I lack the courage. Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young. But now, all of sudden I have a sort of desperate wish to tell everything to somebody.

Robert Smith

In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

Sara Shepard

My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

Samuel Johnson

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

Saul Bellow

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.