Missing In Life Quotes

#1. The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

Nicholas Wolterstorff

#2. Because Christmas did something to the world at large and to individuals in particular. It crystallized all your hopes and fears. It made you yearn and wish and dream. And no matter how hard you tried - it made you realize all the things you were missing in life.

Sharon Kendrick

#3. Heroes can lose their way. Sometimes, heroes can go missing from even themselves. Have you ever had that feeling in your own life?

Mark Andrew Poe

#4. If you want to find missing children put their photo's on Soda Cans, beer cans and cigarette packs and you'll increase the odds by millions some people are lactose in tolerate.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#5. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

#6. I do know I want to have children. That's the only thing missing in my life. I certainly thought I'd have some by now.

John Stamos

#7. Sometimes you might miss that person, sometimes you'll feel like running back to them ... sometimes you'll suffer from unbearable pain but sometimes you have to forget what you feel. And simply remember what you deserve, smile and move on!

Nehali Lalwani

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

Slash Coleman

#9. I've learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk.

Carlos Wallace

#10. This is a real-life story, Owen," I said. "It's not a mystery novel." In real life, I meant, there was nothing written that the missing father couldn't

John Irving

#11. Some people call this "staying in your comfort zone," but that's not a good name for it because the comfort zone is definitely not comfortable. It should be called the "misery zone" or the "missing-out-on-life zone." In

Russ Harris

#12. though I thought of him often, though he appeared in dreams from which I woke more excited than I was by anything in my waking life, I didn't regret what I had done. I had missed him, but more than missing him I had been relieved that he was gone.

Garth Greenwell

#13. If you think about shortages, you're going to attract more shortage! If you think about what's missing, you're going to attract more of what's missing in your life.

Wayne Dyer

#14. Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.

Chris Fabry

#15. We fail to be disciples only because we do not decide to be. We do not intend to be disciples. It is the power of the decision and the intention over our life that is missing. We should apprentice ourselves to Jesus in a solemn moment, and we should let those around us know that we have done so.

Dallas Willard

#16. You probably can't get much closer to God than serving a congregation 24/7. At the same time, there's a different kind of closeness in this present life I have in which I have much more freedom to come and go and to engage some of the silence and stillness and solitude that I was missing before.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#17. The problem is that we always look for the missing piece of the puzzle instead of finding a place for the one in our hand ...

Alina Radoi

#18. Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

Jon Krakauer

#19. You are not accidental. The world needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

Rajneesh

#20. I am not depressed. I just miss people around me.. I am sure of this: missing people is good in a way.. It helps me realize how precious they are.. how they've changed my life..

Saravana Kumar Murugan

#21. I have lived a carnal life. My view of life is 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!' I don't have to go through the thing of paying for it in the next life. I know I'm screwed in the next life.

Sam Kinison

#22. You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. You can't help but change when you have a kid, and for me it was just a sense of I didn't feel like anything was missing in my life and it wasn't. It all came at just the right time, and now if I am absent from my son, I do feel like something is missing.

Chris Pratt

#24. We are in the middle of a world revolution, and I don't mean Communism. The revolution I'm talking about is that of the little, poor people all over the world. They're beginning to learn what there is in life, and to learn what they are missing.

George C. Marshall

#25. God showed me that He could and would replace everything that was missing in my life, but that nothing could replace Him in my life.

Zig Ziglar

#26. In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they know about, they are missing out on much else life has to offer.

Dennis Flanagan

#27. If you keep wanting to get back in the nest, you're missing the amazing experience of coming out to play at life for a while.

Jay Woodman

#28. I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.

Sylvia Plath

#29. When something is missing in your life, it usually turns out to be someone.

Robert Breault

#30. There's much talk in popular culture about finding
happiness - as though if you aren't grinning ear to
ear 24 hours a day you're somehow missing out on
life.

Rachel C. Weingarten

#31. Sometimes we have to go through difficult times in life," he said. "But they're just a test, and if we stay strong, we're eventually rewarded.

Chevy Stevens

#32. I am somewhere in the middle of a village with all the modern amenities. There's something missing. Life? I reckon....

Manasa Rao

#33. Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves.

Nicolas G. Janovsky

#34. Unless we practice
loving feelings toward
everyone we meet, day in,
day out, we're missing out
on the most joyous part of
life. If we can actually open
our hearts, there's no
difficulty in being happy.

Ayya Khema

#35. God, I loved her. She was the piece I had been missing for the last three months. She was everything I wanted in my life but was still unsure I deserved.

A Meredith Walters

#36. I looked at you and knew what was missing in my life. What I wanted in my life. I've never stopped loving you, Ren. I can't make it any simpler than that.

Maya Banks

#37. Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

John Michael Hayes

#38. Michael Winter's fiction is a lot like hearing him talk about his life ... harrowing in an after-the-fact hilarious way. Full of wonder and mystery. A hangover you wouldn't miss for the world.

Michael Crummey

#39. The good die young, but I have been spared to build myself up so that I may end my life as good as gold. The senior dead will be proud of me ... I will join the Y.M.C.A. of the immortals. Only, in this very hour, I may be missing eternity.

Saul Bellow

#40. My life is moving forward in a weird empty narrative, missing one key character, whose current life is a continuous loop.

Jodi Picoult

#41. We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Ethel Waters

#42. You don't know why God has put that person in your path. It's not a coincidence. He's strategically lined up every person, every detail and every step of your life. Now do your part
don't miss an opportunity to do good for others.

Joel Osteen

#43. You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

Marya Hornbacher

#44. I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I'm missing it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#45. And suddenly in the middle of the day a strange feeling grips you. The feeling of missing someone. The warm embrace and the tight hug and the tenderness...

Avijeet Das

#46. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#47. Did you know, in the entire universe, we are the only intelligent life forms thought to have a Miss Universe contest?

Lily Tomlin

#48. If you are thinking about, talking about, and spending energy on what is missing in your life, what is wrong, what you don't like, or what always has been, then you are going to continue to attract those things into your life. We become what we think about.

Wayne Dyer

#49. If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.

Patrick Nowell-Smith

#50. you'll drive yourself crazy if you live your life constantly thinking about what's missing in your life. Celebrate what you have. Appreciate it. Make the most of it.

Kate Willoughby

#51. For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

Justin Cronin

#52. Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Robert Cormier

#53. Your intuition is the pilot's seat of your soul. If you don't trust it, you'll keep missing the most important of destinations in life.

Kaiden Blake

#54. I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

Brit Morin

#55. If you think something is missing in your life, it is probably YOU ...

Robert Holden

#56. There are always one thing missing in the life. No matter what it is?

Prem

#57. As we'd slogged away for weeks on the Convention Hall stage in isolation, trying to pump life into our much-vaunted songbook, there'd been only one thing missing: you.

Bruce Springsteen

#58. Her memory was awful after she'd been drinking, like a broken film reel. Whole segments of time were missing, fuzzy, unsalvageable. In fact, her recollection of most her life seemed to be full of taunting gaps, so that she only had a handful of memories to look back on.

Jack Jordan

#59. There are foour books with cream covers next to it, mysteries set in Russia. I don't think I'm quite up to that. I have enough mystery in my life as it is.

Emma Healey

#60. Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

Cheyenne Kimball

#61. Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.

Anthony Liccione

#62. I miss Texas so bad. That's the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It's tough.

Jackson Rathbone

#63. It's about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don't say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

Sofia Coppola

#64. Once in my life I knew a grief so hard I could actually hear it inside, scraping at the lining of my stomach, an audible ache, dredging with hooks as rivers are dredged when someone's been missing too long. I have to think my mother felt something like that.

Leif Enger

#65. All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.

Cassandra Clare

#66. This band has a weight to it. Our songs feel important to play ... That was missing in my life without Sleater-Kinney.

Janet Weiss

#67. We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn to do too. You must look for what's missing and learn how to find the truth in these absences.

Emma Larkin

#68. A man in the skyscraper needs to feed a pigeon from his window to remember what great thing missing in his life: The touch of nature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#69. People in that robotic, drone-like state, walking the earth with no set mission other than to survive another day. Missing the glory of the day, missing the potential for beauty and magic that each moment brings. Missing the gift of life, to walk in the footsteps of the mundane.

Tony Curl

#70. You're just suffering from the belief that there's something missing from your life. In reality, you always have what you need.

Byron Katie

#71. Only, it's not an it. It's a her. A zombie. A woman. A zombie woman. She's older than Janine, closer to my age, maybe early thirties, missing a little bit of her face, but otherwise sort of pretty in a melancholy way.

Charles Yu

#72. There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.

John Ruskin

#73. I hate the thought of someone never being missed,' said Ianto sadly. 'It's the ultimate humiliation, surely. So unimportant in life that no one even notices when you die.

Trevor Baxendale

#74. A lack of love is the cause for most problems in life, when love is missing, nothing can flourish, only pain thrives.

Leon Brown

#75. Make your worst day is the best day in your life,because surely there's something missing within our self without it,so we can be who we are now ,the wiser and the mature one

Faiz Triumph

#76. There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#77. Most of us miss our best opportunities in life because they come to us disguised as work.

Nido R. Qubein

#78. That big chunk of my life that felt like it was missing has slid back into place. With him, I feel whole again. For the first time in a long time, I'm where I'm supposed to be with the person I'm supposed to be with.

Collette West

#79. Broken people do things better; we learned how to make it in life without the missing parts other people have. Because when you're in the dark, you appreciate everything that shines.

L.J. Shen

#80. I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

S. Jay Olshansky

#81. But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.

Melanie Shankle

#82. Vanity's a debilitating affliction. You're so absorbed in yourself it's impossible to love anyone other than oneself, leaving you weak without realization of it. It's quite sad. You've no idea what you're missing either. You will never know real love and your life will pas you by.

Fisher Amelie

#83. I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

Jack White

#84. Your soul mate makes you feel entirely intact, like no piece is missing from the puzzle. A life partner, on the other hand, can be a great supporter and long-time companion, but is limited in his or her capacity to enrich your spirit.

Carmen Harra

#85. Josie glanced back to the TV. Again the players seemed to be celebrating some minor achievement. It offended the eye at first, then Josie grew to understand it. That's what's missing in my life, she thought. The celebration of every single moment, like those fucking idiots on TV.

Dave Eggers

#86. If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

Andy Stanley

#87. There was something missing in her life.

Zelmer Wilson

#88. I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'

Tracy McMillan

#89. Many of us are speeding up and skipping over, missing the important as we scan for the urgent. The irony is that in our anxiety toward not missing out, we are losing the most meaningful moments of life.

Jeff Goins

#90. What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

Julien Smith

#91. I've had down periods in the past few years where I haven't been writing or working on music, and during that time something always felt like it was missing, but when I bring it back into the equation, everything in my life makes sense again. As corny as that sounds.

Keiynan Lonsdale

#92. I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

Richard Foreman

#93. You can set unachievable goals, and you can end up missing out on your life because, in some ways, ambition is kind of living in the future.

Simon Le Bon

#94. I think sometimes the biggest influence isn't what's present in your life, but what's absent.

Those missing pieces that shape you and change you, the silences that are louder than the noise.

Margo Rabb

#95. Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn't expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

Jennifer Egan

#96. I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

Jamie Ford

#97. There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don't take Chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! -RVM

R.v.m.

#98. You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

John Dufresne

#99. Nothing focuses attention like a real deadline. If you are in a field where life and death, or having a job or not having a job, depends on not missing deadlines, you need to learn to manipulate yourself to meet them; often a good way of doing this is teaming up with non-procrastinators.

John Perry

#100. That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him - we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

Catherine Lacey