Missing What Could Have Been Quotes

#1. Spending time with you showed me what I've been missing in my life.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. It has been said that if you don't see God in the profane and the profound, you're missing half the story. That is a great Truth.

Neale Donald Walsch

#3. 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

#4. You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

Jodi Picoult

#5. If I never went home, what exactly would I be missing? I pictured my cold cavernous house, my friendless town full of bad memories, the utterly unremarkable life that had been mapped out for me. It had never once occurred to me, I realized, to refuse it.

Ransom Riggs

#6. 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.

Denise Crosby

#7. I hurt all over even more now, like someone has shattered my insides, like I've been torn apart and put back together but I'm missing something.
Her.
And him. My brother.

Elizabeth Scott

#8. There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she'd barely given the memories of him a second's worth of her time.

Megan Hart

#9. Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

Bob Porter

#10. Parts of my soul had always been missing, but I felt whole for the first time. The emptiness inside of me was gone and had been replaced by a warm glow that made my entire world look brighter and more bearable. I had to have more.

Elizabeth Garrison

#11. Might you be missing opportunities because you have been too quick to ask how instead of why?

John C. Maxwell

#12. Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your head missing some?" I croaked. His mouth almost quirked in a smile, and that's when I knew how upset he'd been

James Patterson

#13. 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

#14. For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.

Iain Reid

#15. I feel like I've survived so much, and been through so much. And sometimes I miss the innocence of those times. Life was different. New York was different. The music business was different. I miss the simplicity of it, the naivete of everyone around me.

Madonna Ciccone

#16. Those who fixate on what could have been are bound to miss what already is.

Sara Secora