102 Missed Connections Quotes

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Famous Missed Connections Quotes

I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

Chance encounters are what keep us going. — Haruki Murakami

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. - Paul Muldoon

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. — Paul Muldoon

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there. — Pete Hautman

Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs

When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. — Margaret J. Wheatley

A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. — Heraclitus

And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us. — Pablo Neruda

The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection. — Sherry Turkle

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet. — Will Rogers

Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart. — Kai Knudsen

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining. — Kate Chopin

I like to connect to people in the virtual world, exchanging thoughts and ideas, when in the physical world we might never have the opportunity to cross paths. — Demi Moore

Short Missed Connections Quotes

  • It's not too late to develop new friendships or reconnect with people. — Morrie Schwartz
  • I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village. — Gina Bellman
  • Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along. — Rumi
  • Journeys end in lovers meeting. — William Shakespeare
  • I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o
  • Love is that micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being — Barbara Fredrickson
  • Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. — Sayings
Missed connections quote Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.
Be where you are, otherwise you will miss your life.

I Will Miss You Quotes

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that. — Merle Haggard

Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds we are there. But whenever I start feeling sad cuz I miss you I remind myself how lucky I am to have someone so special to miss. — Henri Nouwen

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color. — W. S. Merwin

Missed connections quote Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

So many people glorify and romanticize 'busy.' I do not. I value purpose. I believe in resting in reason and moving in passion. If you’re always busy/moving, you will miss important details. I like the mountain. Still, but when it moves, lands shift and earth quakes. — Joseph Cook

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life. — Buddha

I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid." - Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532 — Anne Rice

Missed connections quote The people who are meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how fa
The people who are meant to be in your life will always gravitate back towards you, no matter how far they wander.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will. — Heather Brewer

As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delight of presence best known by the torments of absence. — Alcibiades

I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night. — Taylor Swift

Absence makes the heart grow fonder — Eleanor Roosevelt

We Will Miss You Quotes

Congrats to Clare Farnsworth on a legendary career! One of the all-time great Seahawks! We will miss you Clare! — Pete Carroll

You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us. — Michael Crichton

As Indian women, we are always balancing work, life, home, etc. It's important to know that while juggling rubber balls and glass balls, the former may bounce back when you miss, but the glass balls will crack if you let them fall. So prioritise, prioritise, prioritise. — Nita Ambani

Missed connections quote The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.

Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things. — Shunryu Suzuki

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves. — Agatha Christie

I miss everything about you. Can't believe that I still want youAnd after all the things we've been through. — Colbie Caillat

Missed connections quote Where these is too much, something is missing.
Where these is too much, something is missing.

I worry that I'll go down to the dock, and that my ship will have already come and gone. I'll miss my boat." And we say, another boat, another boat, another boat. You have no idea how many boats are coming to your dock. It's a steady stream, and it doesn't matter how many of them you've missed. — Esther Hicks

Sometimes tender, sometimes spiral-eyed-but always, as we say, 'of a mind' -Lily Brown's sonorous and cerebral poems can fire synapses you never knew you had. If you're careful, Rust or Go Missing will keep you on the edge of your head. — Graham Foust

This goodbye will only seem Like an eternal pain If I fail to merely miss you Until we meet again As we assuredly will I've made my mind up — John Walter Bratton

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard. — Will Kimbrough

Will Miss You Quotes

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment. — Rumi

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

Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces – and as it gets older and stronger, it will tear deeper – love her, love her, love her! — Charles Dickens

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. - Les Brown

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars. — Les Brown

Love where you are as much as where you are going so you will never miss a moment of your journey. — Katrina Mayer

Now, Bad Ass, you run your mouth about Summerslam. Well, here's the situation. The Rock says this, if the Rock hits you he'll kill you. If he misses, the wind behind the punch will give you pneumonia and you'll die anyway, so the choice is yours, jabroni. — Dwayne Johnson

Missed connections quote You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.

You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful. — Eric Thomas

Raising children, be aware that the piles and piles of laundry will disappear all too soon and that you will, to your surprise, miss them profoundly. — Thomas S. Monson

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. — Winston Churchill

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. — Nicholas Sparks

You Miss Me Quotes

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever. — A. A. Milne

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. — James Oppenheim

Don't say you miss me when it's your fault I'm gone! - Sayings

Don't say you miss me when it's your fault I'm gone! — Sayings

Missed connections quote We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.

When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there. — Jayde Nicole

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I just hope that you miss me a little when I'm gone. — Drake

Your absence has gone through me - W. S. Merwin

Your absence has gone through me — W. S. Merwin

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. — Nicholas Sparks

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in: Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add-- Jenny kissed me! — Leigh Hunt

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead. — Luis Bunuel

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More Missed Connections Quotes

It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway. — Sofia Coppola

I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing. — William S. Burroughs

Missed connections quote Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it. — Dizzy Dean

Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing. — Jay-Z

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains. — Russell Brand

Missed connections quote We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time. — Dr. John

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life. — John H. Groberg

Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed. — Seth Godin

I try to be careful and put things in perspective. There are people who have challenging lives and work hard physically and mentally. I consider myself a lucky person because I get to go on stage and tell jokes for an hour. If I miss a connection here and there or my room isn't ready now and then? It's not a big deal. — Brian Regan

I'm not a good listener some times. I'm too much of a control freak. I'm learning to be better. I was so caught up in just getting the job done that I would miss out on the human aspect of this. There was a connection missing. — Howard Stern

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken? — Trenton Lee Stewart

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary. — David Attenborough

In a wristwatch, imagine the battery is in the strap and there's a medical sensor in there connected to the internet. If someone is monitoring that, they could phone up if the user has forgotten to take some medication. This could save hundreds of dollars in medical fees later. What's missing? It's a stable battery. — Donald Sadoway

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being. — Anna Kamienska

On the other hand, I'm drawn to top hats, and spats, and mustaches. I haven't read a Missed Connection yet with someone wearing a monocle, but rest assured I'll snap it up if I do. — Sophie Blackall

We need to focus our attention on Iran, because if you miss Iran, you are not going to get ISIS. The two are inextricably connected because one causes the other. — Chris Christie

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and financial opportunities. Other high stakes will be missed by people if they don't master and connect information. — Everette Dennis

In a way, I feel that we're always connected, maybe you and me, we've been connected - not only now, but before. That's why we've crossed paths. And this manifests beautifully for me in fables, old television, novels in Thailand, but now we try to ignore these themes and stories. That's why now when we make "ghost" films, they have a certain stock quality to their effects, a certain formula, and I miss how it used to be. — Apichatpong Weerasethakul

With that explosion of dance music thing, there have been some downsides. We're lacking a little bit of connection right now. Pop music is so massive. It's everywhere. Today, there's less of discovery. There's less "I'm going to drive two hours and go see him at this dirty night club." We're missing a little bit of that. It's still there, and I feel like those connections are still made. — Kaskade

There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in our concerts in the United States versus in other places. Many times people feel far away from their place of origin, from their traditions, from their people. And in a way, Café Tacvba's music brings them memories. It seems to connect them with all that they miss, because the concerts are very emotive and have lots of energy. We're very fortunate to have our music connect in that way. — Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

I didn't think that at the beginning. I just wanted to have a garden and a farm and have animals around me. But I do think there's a craving for people to feel a connection. Honestly, it's building on an immigrant tradition, where you bring your country to America. You bring your seeds from Italy. My neighbors are Vietnamese, so they're growing their herbs and stuff that they miss from Vietnam. — Novella Carpenter

There's always a connection to be made whether you're playing a psychopath or whatever. It doesn't really matter; you've got to find this thing that you relate to with each character otherwise you're missing something. — Luke Evans

J.P. Donleavy - now he's one writer I am consistent with. He's written books that I can definitely connect with. He has amazing insights which other people missed out on. Even with his descriptions of Northern Ireland. — Van Morrison

I'm very attached to my family and protective of them and miss them, and that situation, my connection with that can make me become very vulnerable. — Jimmy Cliff

I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and tweets about how my life story has helped change other people's lives. With my sobriety and what I went through. I don't do a whole bunch of songs, that from start to end talk about one particular thing. That's a missing puzzle. — Shane Bunting

I did have a couple of people asking me to illustrate their MC in a hope to widen the exposure, unfortunately the messages weren't a good fit, so I couldn't oblige. And I didn't really want to become a matchmaking service. Someone posted a missed connection "I like your blog" which was directed at me... that was kind of fun to stumble across. — Sophie Blackall

I toyed with making portraits based on people's discarded shopping lists found on the street, or old diaries bought on eBay, or other forms of borrowed stories. When I stumbled across the Missed Connections listings, I knew immediately I'd found it. — Sophie Blackall

One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it. — Shakti Gawain

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all. — Rainbow Rowell

Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do. — Deepak Chopra

Unfortunately, being physically equipped to hear has little to do with the actual predilection to listen. Sharing a common tongue does not ensure earnest or successful communication. Missed connections occur among hearing people all the time, splitting open countless minor chasms and yawning gulches, fissures that no vaccine or technilogical advance will ever be able to mend or prevent. That task will always fail to us. — Leah Hager Cohen

Work hard, learn all you can, and never miss the chance to connect with someone new. — Amber Naslund

There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the numbers and the letters, but we fail to communicate the importance of our connection to the living world. — Sylvia Earle

The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It's precisely the high-wire act of "this might not work" that makes original art worth doing. — Seth Godin

I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know, interpretation of a song, I miss it. I just miss it. — Barry Manilow

My marriage had its ups and downs like anyone's, but when it came down to it, I knew it was solid. I miss that sort of security, and that sort of connection with someone. — John Scalzi

An orgasm is not what I want and I know it. What I want, need, is so much more than that. It's the connection.The exhilarating contact with this human being, a being that compels me like no other. I miss his touch, his kiss. I don't care if he gives me just a little kernel of what he can give; I'm just starving to be fed, and my body has never been like this hungry. — Katy Evans

Thoughts of the girl crashed around his mind, made him remember the connection he felt. A sadness washed over him, as if he missed her, wanted to see her. That doesn't make sense, he thought. I don't even know her name. — James Dashner

nostalgia, underlying cosmological explanation for Weak but detectable interaction between two neighboring universes that are otherwise not causally connected. Manifests itself in humans as a feeling of missing a place one has never been, a place very much like one’s home universe, or as a longing for versions of one’s self that one will never, and can never know. — Charles Yu

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