Joni Mitchell Quotes

you dont know what you got till its gone

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.

You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss.

Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

Most of us don't know about happiness until it's over.

I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

You don't miss what you never had.

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

A lot of the ups and downs for me, especially the downs, I feel like it came in a lot of indirect ways because I didn't appreciate what I had.

Sometimes, hindsight is 20/20. Sometimes it takes another situation to kind of make you look back at a different situation and really see how good you had it, you know?

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

Men can be very stupid. We cease to value what we have until it's gone, and only then do we realize the gold we glimpsed in distant hills pales as dross compared to treasure we had in hand.