Quotations about Missing Someone

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

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream.
And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.
~George Linley

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. ~John Dryden

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards

When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum….
~Amy Lowell, “The Taxi”

Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly,
We ought to be together, you and I.
~Henry Alford, “You and I” (Thanks, Jenn)

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