Until They're Gone Quotes

#1. You won't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone. Go give them a big hug while you have the chance.

Kevin Focke

#2. And if you ever find someone you really love, hold onto them with everything you got. Hold onto them until they're gone. And if they ever are gone, let them go. Don't forget them, but let them go.

K. Martin Beckner

#3. You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#4. Somethings you don't know you want until they're gone. Other things you think want, but don't understand you already have them.

Gayle Forman

#5. How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they're gone?

Patti Smith

#6. I feel so alone," she said. "You don't realize how much space someone takes up until they're gone and there's too much emptiness. This place never echoed before. Now it does." She was mystified.

Faith Sullivan

#7. When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

John Green

#8. He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned to walk again. He felt like that, as if part of him had been amputated, and he could not get used to the idea that it was gone forever.

Ken Follett

#9. When we move toward rejected emotions and surround them with loving attention, they quickly break into manageable bits until they are gone.

Deborah Sandella

#10. One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until it becomes present. Remembering the past and giving thought to the future are important, but only to the extent that they help one deal with the present.

S. N. Goenka

#11. We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone too far. This time we're serious. This time we won't quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth

John McCain

#12. Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
... they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong'
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

Marilyn Monroe

#13. Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

J. Oswald Sanders

#14. In the beginning we were a group of nine.
Three are gone, dead.
There are six of us left.
They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all.
I am Number Four.
I know that I am next.

Pittacus Lore

#15. A cluster of giggling women sat nearby, tittering about how the Crown Prince was gone on holiday to the Sorian coast, and how they wished they could join the prince and his dashing friends, and on and on until Celaena contemplated chucking her spoon at them.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. An hour ago Cutwell had thumbed through the index of The Monster Fun Grimoire and had cautiously assembled a number of common household ingredients and put a match to them.
Funny thing about eyebrows, he mused. You never really noticed them until they'd gone.

Terry Pratchett

#17. Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

Rachel Griffiths

#18. The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.

Yousuf Karsh

#19. The guards had asked the Doctor to please wait in the hallway until Mr McCavity had time to see him. So it seemed only polite, the Doctor thought, to wait until they had gone before he wandered off to explore the house.

Justin Richards

#20. Why is it you never know how much someone means to you until they are gone?

Sheena Hutchinson

#21. It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

Cilla Black

#22. Some people don't realize what they have until it's gone, but that does not always mean they are supposed to get it back.

Stephan Labossiere

#23. Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war
until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime

Robert Lowell

#24. You believe an eye for an eye until you are put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone.

Michael Jordan

#25. -A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

Jesse Ball

#26. So many people came into your life, and they were such a part of the everyday that it was impossible to imagine them gone until, one day, they were.

Maryanne O'Hara

#27. They'll be working through until it's done, so Janice has gone to KFC for a bargain bucket. They're dining al desko.

Christopher Fowler

#28. The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting
Against those who were drowning them in the ocean.
The horses sank to the bottom, neighing, neighing.
Until they had all gone down.
That is all. Nevertheless, I pity them,
Those bay horses, that never saw land again.

Boris Slutsky

#29. Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

Immortal Technique

#30. I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Veronica Roth

#31. The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

Tim O'Brien

#32. 'The Underland Chronicles' is an unnecessary war for a very long time until it becomes a necessary war, because there have been all these points where people could have gotten off the train but they didn't; they just kept moving the violence forward until it's gone out of control.

Suzanne Collins

#33. She wondered if dreamers knew they were in a dream while it was happening, or if they had no idea that everything around them was purely imagined until the dream had gone.

Alice Hoffman

#34. You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.

George S. Clason

#35. Even now, I could no more chart her influence than I could the gravitational powers that rule the tides. I suppose that could be said of anyone we love, that their effects on our lives run so deeply, with such grave force, we hardly know what they mean until they are gone.

Aria Beth Sloss

#36. The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone. The very first manifestation of the classless society is the disappearance of the servant class.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#37. People will tell you were they have gone, they'll tell you where to go, but until you get there for yourself you never really know.

Joni Mitchell

#38. You never realised you appreciate a person until the day they're were gone, permanently

Diyar Harraz

#39. She had gone to the state fair in Columbus once with her sister Clarice and they had gotten lost in the House of Mirrors and Clarice's purse had been stolen by a man who had pretended to be a reflection until the very last moment.

David Foster Wallace

#40. It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the cracks, slid past the guard, and you didn't know how deep they were buried until they were gone and you were bleeding on the floor.

V.E Schwab

#41. I think most people are the same. Until they've gone somewhere.

Barbara Kingsolver

#42. This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.

Tim Maleeny

#43. Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Sara Zarr