Missing Quotes - Page 3

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.

He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.

She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had left her and were not coming back.

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind.
However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity.

- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

Feathery dust everywhere surrounds me and as I breathe it in I breathe the scent of your skin, O' thee I am lovesick and homeless ~

Un seul être vous manque, et tout est dépeuplé. (Miss one person and the world seems empty.)

Ludzie pragną czasami się rozstawać, żeby móc tęsknić, czekać i cieszyć się powrotem.