Nobody Is Ever Missing Quotes

#1. He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing. Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up. Nobody is ever missing.

John Berryman

#2. I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.

Clive James

#3. Maybe misery begins everywhere.

Catherine Lacey

#4. Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person who can let their awful plow.

Catherine Lacey

#5. Nobody needs a cookie. You will never get your lab results back, Well, apparently, Miss Bexim what you need - and I am a doctor, I've never seen this before - some sort of a cookie. You're actually too healthy. You need a cookie.

Dom Irrera

#6. If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Steven Wright

#7. Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. There's nobody here I can love, all the people I could love are dead or elsewhere. Who knows where they are or what their names are now? They might as well be nowhere, as I am for them. I too am a missing person.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Shooting a pistol while running with any accuracy at all is next to impossible. They train us at the Academy to do it at a walk. Slow yourself down, focus on the target. Be relentless, but be accurate. Nobody ever won a gunfight by missing what they were aiming at.

Jonathan Maberry

#9. The most beautiful country in the world, the bloke said a few times, but I knew that lots of people tell themselves things like that but there is no country that is the most beautiful country.

Catherine Lacey

#10. Two rules: You enter without breaking. And you remember that nobody misses what you don't take.

Andrew Vachss

#11. He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.

Catherine Lacey

#12. 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

#13. I had never really stopped thinking of how the smartest person I knew had, after much thought, decided that life was not worth it - that she'd be better off not living - and how was I supposed to live after that?

Catherine Lacey

#14. But we always avoided talking about these things - difficult things - and I wondered if that meant we'd be a little uncomfortable with or disappointed by each other for the rest of our lives.

Catherine Lacey

#15. We did not exist, the we we thought we'd always be.

Catherine Lacey

#16. What I was to do with my hands suddenly became a distinct and unsolvable problem.

Catherine Lacey

#17. But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.

Graham McNamee

#18. I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face - not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.

Catherine Lacey

#19. I walked toward the ocean, my brain somehow calm and empty, sick of itself, taking a sick day.

Catherine Lacey

#20. I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story.

Catherine Lacey

#21. Lately, I couldn't remember those years, as if childhood was a movie I'd only seen the previews to.

Catherine Lacey

#22. 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

#23. Why were we never together anymore, just alone in each other's vicinity?

Catherine Lacey

#24. I've barely ever thought about Him ... That doesn't mean he hasn't thought about you. You own a piece of God's heart, like a piece of puzzle that's missing. A piece nobody else can fill.

Julie Lessman

#25. I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried to mirror Luna back at herself, but that exhausted me after a week and I concluded that I was not meant for this sort of thing, friends, friendliness, no, I wasn't meant for it.

Catherine Lacey

#26. This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.

Mordecai Richler

#27. I began to think that he had just the right measure of unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life to be someone I could get along with.

Catherine Lacey

#28. And he'd said nothing or something that amounted to nothing, and I tongued this memory like a burn in my mouth until the bathwater cooled and shook me back into my body where my fingerprints were ruffled.

Catherine Lacey

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

Rajneesh

#30. I'm here, I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that I'd been with Ruth hardening again, like warm caramel left to cool.

Catherine Lacey

#31. Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

Twyla Tharp

#32. Kazemi has to understand that nobody is going to tell him he has to go back to Iran if he misses a shot.

Bill Walton

#33. I wondered for a moment if he was trying to get me to join a cult, but I realized it was just his youth talking, not a dogma.

Catherine Lacey

#34. Judas put his arm around me. I smiled and thought of the words unreality and despair.

Catherine Lacey

#35. I couldn't blame anyone for what was in me, because I am, like everyone, populated entirely by myself.

Catherine Lacey

#36. People in large quantities are terrible.

Catherine Lacey

#37. Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or government. When they went missing or sunk, nobody went looking for them. They simply disappeared into the ether.

Robert Kurson

#38. You will never be missing to yourself and all you can do is delay, delay, delay and the delaying must be good enough for you and you must find a way to be fine with the delay because it is your whole life and the minute you really go missing is the minute you can no longer miss.

Catherine Lacey

#39. I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.

Catherine Lacey

#40. I worried that what I had seen in the driver was something I'd seen in myself, that it took me to know me.

Catherine Lacey

#41. Scarlet's world was crashing down around her and nobody noticed. Her grandmother was missing and nobody cared. She

Marissa Meyer

#42. Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

Paul Westerberg

#43. If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

Earl Wilson

#44. And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way, that probably no one was right for me and potentially no one was right for anyone, but I also felt, with uncharacteristic sincerity, that we were as right for each other as any two people could manage.

Catherine Lacey

#45. The resurrection was God's way of stamping PAID IN FULL right across history so that nobody could miss it.

Timothy Keller