Simon Van Booy Quotes
I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.
I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
The present grows within the boundaries of the past.
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.