Francois Mauriac Quotes

We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.

you dont know what you got till its gone

When you don't do something anymore, all of a sudden everyone treasures it.

'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 have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

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.

You'll never miss the water 'til the well runs dry.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

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

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

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.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

Sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't get it.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

You don't miss what you never had.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

When the well is dry, we learn the worth of water.

Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

What you've never had, you never miss.