“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.” IfsKnowsMenImportantMightWould BeDiesLeftFourDyingMissingHe ManNeededFindingsOrdinaryConcernedDecidedExpertsOne ManMeaninglessAppointmentsOrdinary ManKnocked Down Author:William McIlvanney
“You just go through a certain kind of drudgery every time you have to look for something. I've got certain things grouped by now, but there's a drudgery in finding them. There's always stuff missing.” LooksKindCertainStuffMissingFindingsDrudgery Author:Garry Winogrand
“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?” IfsGivingMadeMissingFindingsWhat IfSweet LoveGive And Take Book:The Tenth Circle: A Novel Source: The Tenth Circle: A Novel
“GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and the clear water. Friends argue that I might be wiser for it. They do not hear that far-off Yankee whisper: How dull we grow from hurrying here and there! Many have gone, and think me half a fool To miss a day away in the cool country. Maybe. But in a book I read and cherish, Going to Walden is not so easy a thing As a green visit. It is the slow and difficult Trick of living, and finding it where you are.” ThinkingBookCountryMightLyingGrowsEasyDifficultWaterHalfGoneClearMissingFoolFindingsStonesGreenArguingTricksDullRoughCherishWhere You AreWiserHighwaysYankeesHere And ThereHurryingNightfallClear Water Book:The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems Source: The River Styx, Ohio, and other poems
“There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.” GivingEarthHeavenMissingFindingsConnectionsIncludingMeaninglessHeaven And EarthMissing It Author:John H. Groberg
“You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding him if it was aliens," Grandma said.” IfsPersonsSaidCasesMissingFindingsDevilAliensGrandmaMissing A Person Book:High Five Source: High Five
“And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?” PersonsSometimesMomentsMissingTerribleSolitudeFindingsSpiteSaneFleetingDoseSubway Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“I didn't have time to lose it. I didn't have time to lie down in the corner shop and scream and beat the floor until my hands bled. I didn't have time to miss Jack. Stroma kept on chattering away and getting excited over novelty spaghetti shapes and finding the joy in every little thing, and it occurred to me even then that she was probably looking after me, too.” LittlesHandsJoyLyingLosesMissingShapesFindingsBeatsCornersExcitedShopsLittle ThingsScreamNoveltySpaghetti Author:Jenny Valentine
“It didn't escape me that he couldn't seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn't want him to stop.” WantReasonSeemsMissingFindingsWant HimTouch Me Book:Silence Source: Silence