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Missing someone7 quotes
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976I think I'll miss you most of all. — Dorothy Gale · 1939And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. — James Joyce · 1939Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers. — Eponine · 2012Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759All 7 quotes →Grief2 quotes
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Losing a loved one2 quotes
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Absence1 quote
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld · 1678Broken heart1 quote
Without him
The world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers. — Eponine · 2012Loss1 quote
Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow. — Kakinomoto no Hitomaro · 759Mourning1 quote
A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. — Philippe Aries · 1976