Something Is Missing Sayings

#1. A book without potty humor is like a banana split without hot fudge. It can still be good, I suppose, but you kinda get the feeling that something is missing.

Dav Pilkey

#2. I think that most of us feel like something is missing from our lives. And I wondered then if Knight's journey was to seek it. But life isn't about searching endlessly to find what's missing. It's about learning to live with the missing parts.

Michael Finkel

#3. Most of us spend most of our time in other peoples' worlds - working at predetermined jobs, relaxing to pre-packaged entertainment - and no matter how benign this ready-made world may be, there will always be times when something is missing or doesn't quite ring true.

David Bayles

#4. Plain boiled food, plain boiled thinking. Even his name is plain boiled: John. Maybe because I grew up with black bean sauce and hoisin sauce and garlic sauce, I always feel something is missing when my son-in-law talk.

Gish Jen

#5. Do not surrender your grief so quickly Let it cut more deeply Let it ferment and season you As few human or divine ingredients can Something is missing in my heart tonight That has made my eyes so soft And my voice so tender And my need of God so absolutely clear.

Hafez

#6. Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Ian McEwan

#7. When a person becomes aware of their genius and they live it and they give generously from it, they change the world, they affect the world. And when they depart everyone knows something is missing.

Michael Meade

#8. We come to this book because something is missing in our souls. This book will take you through the steps that you stumbled over in all your other attempts. And it will bring more than you asked for.

Ruben Papian

#9. When you look around your life and you notice that something is missing, don't go looking for it
create it! The key is to design a compelling destination, while enjoying the journey!

Laura Whitworth

#10. Toska." He leaned forward, too. "It's a Russian word. It has no translation into any other language, but the closest I've heard is the ache. A longing. The sense that something is missing, and even if you're not sure what it is, you ache for it. Down to your bones.

Maggie Hall

#11. I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means loss of immediacy. Something is missing then, though; that is why I gave that up.

Gerhard Richter

#12. 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

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

Robert Breault

#14. The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Nicolas Roeg

#15. Where there is too much, something is missing.

Leo Rosten

#16. Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

David Levithan

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

Robert Holden

#18. After you have been eating greens for 6 months, you will feel that something is missing unless you have them each day.

Ann Wigmore

#19. Something feels like it's missing when I haven't heard any music, and when I hear music, then I really feel like something is missing. That's the best I can do in trying to describe music.

Robert Walser

#20. When things ain't going right, something is missing, which you only need to fill up.
Think about that. Alas !!

Bharat Budhani

#21. I don't feel like a whole person anymore. Something is missing and I'm afraid I can't ever get it back.

Julie Cross

#22. As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid.

Timothy Ferriss

#23. My wife, she likes to have things uncluttered, and if something is missing, then one has to be very careful not to ask her if it was thrown out - you have to ask her simply where it might be.

Kyle Chandler

#24. When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

Elie Wiesel

#25. Dr. Chopra describes all addiction as a lack of exultation; meaning that something is missing from the person's life. From a mind-body medicine perspective the best

John Barrett Hawkins

#26. Zorba is beautiful, but something is missing. The earth is his, but the heaven is missing. He is earthly, rooted, like a giant cedar, but he has no wings. He cannot fly into the sky. He has roots but no wings.

Rajneesh

#27. Some places[/people] are like that: they can suffer through wars, persecutions, and indifference, but they still remain sacred. Finally someone comes along, senses that something is missing, and rebuilds them.

Paulo Coelho

#28. I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

Jessica Simpson

#29. This is the trouble with history. You can't see what's not there. You can look at an empty space and see that something's missing, but there's no way to know what it was.

Naomi Alderman

#30. She once told me how she could feel the missing part of her arm- how she sometimes experienced the sensation of a hand- that it is possible to feel something without its physical presence.
Perhaps love is like this and we are all limbs of one giant intangible body.

Simon Van Booy

#31. We have a natural constant craving for leadership. Democracy is always a fragile and imperfect achievement. Yet a distinct feeling of malaise in our political culture lingers. There is something missing from our public debates.

Tim Soutphommasane

#32. Quality without science and research is absurd. You can't make inferences that something works when you have 60 percent missing data.

Peter Pronovost

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

Slash Coleman

#34. I'm missing something, you know? That special 'sparkle' that ;life is supposed to bring. I have the job, the child, the family, the apartment and the friends, but I've lost the sparkle./

Cecelia Ahern

#35. Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

James Redfield

#36. Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

Eric Hoffer

#37. After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.

Monica Bellucci

#38. There are those among us who are more dog people than others - and a dog person without a dog is missing something. I

Rick Bass

#39. Something is still missing from this story: the answers need to be fitted to the original questions.

Daniel Kahneman

#40. I can't think offhand of any American poets who have Mandelstam's urgency, but it's a different country and a different time, and I don't think it would make much sense to say that this is something that's "missing" from contemporary American poetry.

Christian Wiman

#41. I've gone seventy-nine hours without sleep, creating. When that flow is going, it's almost like a high. You don't want it to stop. You don't want to go to sleep for fear of missing something.

Dr. Dre

#42. God knows, I'm no expert on relationships, but I do know when something's good. And this thing we've created between us is precious and rare. I only hope it's not fleeting, because for the first time in my adult life, I've given someone the power to hurt me.

Linda Castillo

#43. 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

#44. The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

Rajneesh

#45. Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing.

Gianni Versace

#46. Today our youth is preoccupied with being rich and famous but is truly missing something. Sadly ... even money won't last if you're not educated. Knowledge Is Everything!

Timothy Pina

#47. The theme of sisters - of missing sisters, of needing sisters, the special love that sisters share or the antagonism sisters share - is something that is very close to me.

Miriam Toews

#48. You won't remember what belongs there. You will only feel the ache of absence & know something unnamable is missing

Juliann Garey

#49. We may express them [emotions] physically slightly differently, and it's of course graded depending on the circumstance, but the essence of the process is going to be the same, unless one of us is not quite well put together and is missing something, otherwise it's going to be the same.

Antonio Damasio

#50. I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

Mia Hamm

#51. I think love is one of those things that it's only really bad because it was once good. You can't miss something that was never amazing. So, what I've learned is that even if it ends badly, it's worth it if it made you feel something, if it taught you something.

Taylor Swift

#52. Dancing is a part of my life where when I don't dance I feel like there's something missing because I'm such a physical person who loves to express myself through dance, but I love to act. I love to sing. I love to entertain so if I'm passionate about a certain project, I wanna do it.

Julianne Hough

#53. Hurry is a thief, pure and simple. And sometimes when we complain about the absence of certain things in our lives, we really aren't missing those things at all - rather, we just don't notice them when they're there because we fly right by them on our way to something else.

Tom Walsh

#54. Longing that is deeper than want. It's not as simple as desire. It's more like missing something you've never had.

T. Greenwood

#55. It is strange that an absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all when before it had something.

Ally Condie

#56. If you can open your mouth to say; I love you! To someone without taking such person(s) as your priority, even with your gifts and money, something more important than your freebie is missing out!

Michael Bassey Johnson

#57. Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist.

Samuel R. Delany

#58. What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

Daniel H. Pink

#59. I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Emraan Hashmi

#60. No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?

Reba McEntire

#61. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#62. There are very few Americans who honestly care who Lindsay Lohan is dating. But it's still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they're worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they're missing.

Chuck Klosterman

#63. Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. There's no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.

Susan Meiselas

#64. There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

Ricky Williams

#65. The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#66. How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?

Zadie Smith

#67. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. - PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art

Daniel H. Pink

#68. Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Ned Rorem

#69. Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

Katherine Parkinson

#70. There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

Jodi Picoult

#71. He knows he is missing something. He is always missing something. He can never get past the first stop of finding it, which is knowing what it is.

David Levithan

#72. I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

Maurice Sendak

#73. We think in terms of fate even if we don't believe in it. Even something as trivial as missing the bus - we think: Well, it might be good for something. We always have that thought, no matter how critical we try to be. The idea that everything is always total chance - we're not made for that.

Daniel Kehlmann

#74. Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.
"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.

Douglas Adams

#75. Any excess in life is a substitute for something that's missing.

Beverly Sills

#76. Maybe having something good and then having to let it go is more painful than never knowing what you're missing.

Mia Sheridan

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

Jane Goldman

#80. I think something you are missing and have missed out on your whole life, Jenna, is the difference between being fucked and being loved....I want to show you how you can be loved.....

Lila Veen

#81. When stepping into the mind of a psychopath, you realize that there is something missing in their brain that they do not understand the consequences of their actions- in a sense.

Lorraine Toussaint

#82. Something critical is missing in places that care for broken and needy people if the only people there are also broken and needy.

Mike Yankoski

#83. We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Mother Teresa

#84. I am unlovable ... I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even - in my sillier moments - in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting or one of Those Nights comes along.

Jeff Lindsay

#85. Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

Lionel Shriver

#86. How can you know what is missing if you've never met it? You must know of something's existence before you can notice its absence.

E.L. Konigsburg

#87. It's all right to change your mind about a situation, even if it's in mid-course without fear that you're missing something. You know, if you're not there, it's not happening for you at that time. All you're doing is changing direction.

Art Hochberg

#88. There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#89. Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Octavio Paz

#90. There is something I'm missing here." He said, sulkily, putting his hands back in his pockets.
"There is always something you're missing, Bren. Probably several somethings." She finished her breakfast and put the bowl in the sink.

Micaela Vee

#91. If you feel stuck in your life, like it's passing you by, like there's something way better for you somewhere out there and you're missing it, try this - try throwing yourself into the small things and repeating to yourself: This is where I start.

Rob Bell

#92. What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Jane Hirshfield

#93. The way the leaves on the trees tremble in the passing air is the way love reaches you, from all directions at once, mysterious, overwhelming, indescribable. To be in love is to find something you didn't know was missing.

Chloe Thurlow

#94. Real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

Emma Donoghue

#95. Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.

Claire Cook

#96. Oftentimes, when music is just blasting out it seems like it's overcompensating for something missing in the song's structure. When I think of the music that I listen to constantly, it's never like an assault.

Babatunde Adebimpe

#97. Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose
something that, if gone, will tear away a part of me.

Jackson Pearce

#98. What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing.

Nellie Bly

#99. Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

Peter Hoeg

#100. Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.

Peter Drucker