Missing Place Quotes

#1. If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

Rebecca Makkai

#2. All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

James Agate

#3. L.A. is such a different place. I miss New York so much. I almost teared up when I came back and wanted a Guinness and realized I could drink it and take a cab home. I remembered that I could be a functional alcoholic in New York, like I used to be!

Donald Glover

#4. Without missing a beat he said, "This year, Santa, I'd like a pony and an Easy-Bake Oven."
Raja grunted and pushed him off to the side. "You'll be getting coal in a place where it hurts if you ever attempt to sit in my lap again.

Karsten Knight

#5. He couldn't read her these days; it was as though she'd been taken away from him, and in her place some alien had dropped a figure that looked like Alice, but was a cheap imitation of her with half the emotions missing or malfunctioning.

Andrew Barrett

#6. She is a maze where I got lost years ago, and now find the way out. She is the missing map. She is the place that I am.

Jeanette Winterson

#7. These guys sit in the Senate - even though he misses most of the votes, by the way - but he sits in the Senate and listens to this stuff all the time.I'm out working, producing jobs all over the place and building a great company.

Donald Trump

#8. 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

#9. Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

Sam Altman

#10. I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him ... I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck ... Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.

Bob Dylan

#11. My soul had a hole in it, in the place where you had been. I still feel like there's a part of me missing. A big part of me. It hurts all the time. Every day.

P.C. Cast

#12. Friendship make me feel this world is loving place to stay and have known the pain of missing this wonderful gift.

Kanwar Dhillon

#13. My favourite place to write is at my desk in my house in the mountains of Crete. I produce more there because one big distraction is missing: the Internet.

Neal Asher

#14. Maybe that's all that family really is, a group of people who all miss the same imaginary place.

Zach Braff

#15. Whatever you may be missing right now - a person, a place, a feeling, maybe you are injured and missing running - whatever it is, have peace and take heart - remember that any goodbye makes room for a hello.

Kristin Armstrong

#16. 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

#17. Yes, Roger Hunt misses a few, but he gets in the right place to miss them.

Bill Shankly

#18. Anna, falling in love with you was like coming home to a place I didn't realize I'd been missing all my life. You're the only person I've ever known who accepts me for who I am, right in this moment, faults and all, and isn't waiting for me to become someone else.

Jennifer Chiaverini

#19. I was so full of missing her that I felt my heart would splinter into a thousand tiny pieces, but I found comfort in the thought of them together up there in the shade of those old trees, overlooking the bay. It tempered my grief ever so slightly, like a feather come to lodge in a dark place.

Ute Carbone

#20. I can't lose you," I whisper. "Not when I feel like my life is finally falling into place. You were the missing piece. You were the cheese to my macaroni.

Kendall Ryan

#21. If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place.

Brendan Fraser

#22. Sometimes good-bye is a second chance. Clears your head. Anyway ... missing someone makes you remember why you loved that person in the first place.

Jamie McGuire

#23. You never knew when God would send you just what you needed, sometimes even when you didn't realize you were missing anything in the first place. You just had to keep your eyes-and mind-open to the possibilities.

Mia Ross

#24. Kind of. Is missing something proof of how much you were into it in the first place?

David Levithan

#25. He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.

John Locke

#26. Missing someone meant that you are fortunate to love someone in the first place. If you don't miss them you don't love them

Rachel Robinson

#27. It wasn't merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired i was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.

Josh Lanyon

#28. Those who scorn and hate the world and hate themselves miss the point. The point was that there wasn't one. There was no place to go to.

Frederick Lenz

#29. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it's own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.

Coco J. Ginger

#30. I know you will find what's missing.

Jen Calonita

#31. We found love in a hopeless place.

Rihanna

#32. But that's a way to go on loving
a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love. [p. 56]

Shirley Hazzard

#33. And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

#34. Phyllis Diller came through a mine field of male comedians when she arrived on the comedy scene and she defused them all. She won her place in the Hall of Comedy as the First Lady. I will miss her.

Tim Conway

#35. At some point I'm going to learn that regret hurts a lot worse than never having done something in the first place and missing the chance forever.

Lynn Red

#36. I miss him for all the things he forgot to see in himself & if im lucky fate will help us rekindle a flame that never got set alight in the first place.

Nikki Rowe

#37. You should really find Jesus, young man." "I've put out a missing person report. The police told me they couldn't get a warrant to search his place.

Anonymous

#38. Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.

Walt Whitman

#39. People don't give a flying fuck if Uncle Jeffrey really forgives them for missing his last birthday party. They want to know that the world is a place where Uncle Jeffrey can and should forgive them.

Jim Butcher

#40. 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

#41. The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

Kate Morton

#42. [I]f you live abroad any good while, the notion of home is permanently compromised. You will always be missing another place, and no national logic will ever again seem fully obvious to you.

Andrew Solomon

#43. And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when you're gasping for air, when you're begging for pain,
when you're missing something, unable to change the channel.

Kris Kidd

#44. I felt changed and a little crazy. But though I was still like a stained and slightly buckled jigsaw puzzle with some pieces missing, now there were at least a few border pieces in place.

Anne Lamott

#45. The word itself creates an empty sensation. Try saying it now. "Why?" Notice how your tongue touches nothing when you form the word with your mouth. Feel the gap, the space inside your mouth, that it creates. The air. It is a place that needs filling. It is missing an answer.

Arlene J. Chai

#46. They were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

Jennifer McMahon

#47. It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Agatha Christie

#48. How does it feel, whispered Faith, to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place?

Frances Hardinge

#49. We were one thing. A whole thing. You and I and Nighteyes. I felt a strange sort of peace. As if all the parts of me were finally in one place. All the missing bits that would make me a complete... thing.' I shook my head. 'Words don't read that far.

Robin Hobb

#50. You know, I tried not to think of this place. I tried to let it go. To leave it behind. But it always came back to me, in my dreams. I'd dream about these details, these objects and people and places I'd left behind, and I'd wake up crying.

Danzy Senna

#51. Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Peggy Noonan

#52. Sometimes when you're in a more fast-paced place, with more to see and do, you miss out on things like nature and beautiful, God-made things. They call it "God's country"!

Valerie June

#53. The study of medicine was, in its own way, something to love in place of a missing family.

Noah Gordon