101 Best ‘I Miss You’ Quotes – Missing You Quotes for Him, Her, Family and Friends

Let’s face it, being away from the ones you love can feel excruciatingly lonely. Not being around those who brighten our lives and make us feel special is never easy, but often inevitable. In life, various circumstances prevent us from being in the presence of some of our favorite people and we find ourselves searching for “miss you” quotes and sweet messages to express what’s in our hearts.

The past two years made this longing emotion even more prevalent. Even if you were one of the fortunate ones who were spared separation from your family and friends during the height of the pandemic, just about everyone has missed someone at some point in their lives.

Whether it was your family when you left for college, your best friend when she moved across the country, or your significant other when they were away on business, loneliness is never fun. As we know, time is irrelevant when it comes to matters of the heart and missing someone is no exception. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t seen the person in 24 hours or two years, when you value someone’s presence, their absence can leave a tremendous void.

To stay connected no matter the distance or situation, we’ve rounded up some of the best quotes about missing someone to comfort and console you until you’re reunited. From romantic to funny we promise these heartfelt sentiments will keep you content until you meet again.

Missing You Quotes for Him

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• “I miss you in ways that not even words can understand.” — Gemma Troy
• “If I miss you any harder, my heart might come looking for you.” — Gemma Troy
• “In case you ever foolishly forget: I am never not thinking of you.” — Virginia Woolf
• “You’re everywhere except right here and it hurts.” — Rupi Kaur, ‘The Sun and Her Flowers’
• “I keep myself busy with the things I do, but every time I pause, I still think of you.” — Cecelia Ahern
• “I think about you constantly, whether it’s with my mind or my heart.” — Terri Guillemets
• “If you never left again, I would still spend the rest of my life missing you.” — Tessa Bailey, ‘Too Hot to Handle’
• “Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” — Caroline George, ‘Dearest Josephine’
• “Listen to the sunset; see its pretty hue. When you see it, think of me, and I’ll think of you.” — Oksana Rus
• “Must I wonder if your thoughts are of me? If you are missing me, wanting me, creating heart beats and poet-less words for me? [ i do…]” — N’Zuri Za Austin
• “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
• “Whenever I miss you, I look at my heart. Because it’s the only place I can find you.” — Unknown
  

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• “He kisses me like he misses me, even before I have to go.” — C.J. Carlyon
• “Distance unites missing beats of two hearts in love.” — Munia Khan
• “I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night.” — Unknown
• “I miss you in waves and tonight I’m drowning.” — Denice Envall
• “A hug for you means I need you, a kiss for you means I love you, a call for you means I’m missing you.” — Beth Obedoza
• “Half of me is missing you and the other half is missing you.” — Ranata Suzuki
• “As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together.” — Donna Lynn Hope
• “Perhaps one day we will meet again as characters in a different story, maybe we’ll share a lifetime then.” — Pavana
• “Tonight, I look up, searching for you among the stars.” — Tilicia Haridat
• “When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I’m falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.” — Taylor Swift
• “Trees quiet without the birds, my heart quiet without you.” — Terri Guillemets
• “Missing you is flashes of our past and fantasies of our future with the hard irony of the absence of our present as present occurs.” — Zhi
• “I love you past the moon and miss you beyond the stars.” — J.M. Storm

Missing You Quotes for Her

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• “I miss you once I wake up and I miss you once I fall asleep. I wish that we could always be together.” — Greg Rokozy
• “For when the cold winds blow, I will close my eyes calmly, knowing I am anchored to you.” — Tyler Knott Gregson
• “You know someone is very special to you when days just don’t seem right without them.” — John Cena
• “My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.” — John Keats
• “I only miss you when I’m breathing.” — Jason Derulo
• “Life is so short, so fast the lone hours fly, we ought to be together, you and I.” —Henry Alford
• “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” — Franz Kafka
• “I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.” — Charles Dickens, ‘A Tale of Two Cities’
• “I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.” — James Dashner
• “No matter where you go, you will always be in my heart.” — Anthony T. Hincks
  

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• “There’s solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.” — Jim Crace, ‘Harvest’
• “We only part to meet again.” — John Gay
• “Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.” — John Green
• “Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear!” — Francis Kazinczy
• “Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.” — W.S. Merwin
• “All days are nights to see till I see thee, and nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.” — William Shakespeare
• “I don’t know what they are called — the spaces between seconds, but I think of you always in those intervals. — Salvador Plascencia
• “I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” — Bill Watterson
• “When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I’m with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.” — Lebron James
• I can’t close my eyes without seeing you in my dreams.” — Luke Bryan
• “Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
• “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” — Nicholas Sparks
• “Another day, another pang that you are far.” — Byron Caldwell Smith

Missing You Quotes for Family

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• “Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.” — Charles M. Schulz
• Being in the presence of unconditional love is intoxicating, but debilitating in its absence.” — Unknown
• “Distance means so little when someone means so much.” — Tom McNeal
• “A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.” — Agatha Christie, ‘The Last Séance’
• “A father’s love is forever imprinted on his child’s heart.” — Jennifer Williamson
• “But nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.” — Calla Quinn
• “Missing someone is your heart’s way of reminding you that you love them.” —Unknown
• “You realize how much you truly miss someone when something happens, good or bad, and the only person you want to tell is the one person who isn’t there.” — Unknown
• “Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.” — Tryon Edwards
  

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• “Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” — Kay Knudsen
• “Saying goodbye is always the worst part of being surrounded by love.” — Unknown
• “Cherish those people who have the ability to touch you and still be thousands of miles from your presence.” — Rachel Wolchin
• “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” — A.A. Milne, ‘Winnie the Pooh’
• “There’s no place like home and the people who make it so.” — Unknown
• “When you leave I’m left with tears.” — Unknown
• “Love never ceases even when we’re miles apart.” — Unknown
• “Joy engulfs us when we’re together. When we say goodbye the opposite occurs.” — Unknown
• “Family is forever and so is our love, despite the distance.” — Unknown
• “Strong bonds will never break or erode with time.” — Unknown
• “Missing a sister’s love is like missing a piece of my heart.” — Unknown

Missing You Quotes for Friends

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• “There are friendships imprinted in our hearts that will never be diminished by time and distance.” — Dodinsky
• “The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” — Elisabeth Foley
• “Though miles may lie between us, we are never far apart, for friendship doesn’t count miles, it’s measured by the heart.” — Unknown
• “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” — Unknown
• “Time is never of the essence when it comes to true friendship.” — Unknown
• “Sometimes memories sneak out my eyes and roll down my cheeks.” — Unknown
• “True friendship is…missing you like crazy.” — Unknown
• “Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.” —Unknown
• “That friend who you may not see very often, but the moment you reconnect feels like yesterday.” — Unknown
• “One of the worst things in the world is to miss your bestie, so come back soon.” — Unknown
• “True friends isn’t being inseparable, it’s being separated and nothing changes.” — Unknown
• “Life moves on, but memories don’t. You may have gone away but our friendship is right here..in my heart.” — Unknown
  

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• “Missing our friend is missing ourselves from the world.” — Sashank Varma
• “Whenever I miss my friends, I look to the sky. Although I can’t see them there, I know we are under the same sky.” — Unknown
• “Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.” — Alphonse De Lamartine
• “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” — C.S. Lewis
• “I may not always be there with you, but I’ll always be there for you.” — Unknown
• “Can miles truly separate you from friends…if you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?” — Richard Bach
• “I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.” — Saint Augustine
• “A strong friendship doesn’t need daily conversation or being together. As long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends never part.” — Unknown
• “No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.” — Robert Southey
• “Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.” — Henry David Thoreau
• “True friends are never apart. Maybe in distance but never in heart.” — Unknown

Cute “I Miss You” Quotes

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• “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk in my garden forever.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi
• “I miss you more than the sun misses the sky at night.” — Unknown
• “If you think missing me is hard, then you should try missing you.” — Theofilos
• “I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you.” — Unknown
• “You don’t cross my mind, you live in it.” — Unknown
• “What’s the opposite of two? A lonely me, and a lonely you.” — Richard Wilbur
• “I miss you so much more than the miles between us.” — Unknown
• “Missing you is what I do all day, every day.” — Unknown
• “One of your hugs would be nice right now.” — Unknown
• “Think I’ll miss you forever. Like the stars miss the sun in the mornin’ sky.” — Lana Del Rey, ‘Summertime Sadness’

Karla Pope

Karla Pope is a longtime writer, editor and blogger with nearly two decades of editorial experience. She’s written for a variety of outlets including Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day, People, Parade, BET.com. WebMD and more. Her coverage includes entertainment, beauty, lifestyle, parenting and fashion content. If she’s not exploring New York City with her two young children, you can find her curled up on the couch watching a documentary and eating gummy bears.