Simon Van Booy famous quotes

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Writing #Royal #Irony

Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we'll never meet. It's the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Children #Disappointment #People

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Lonely #Rain #People

Hands have their own language.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Hands #Language

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Beautiful #Too Late #Wonder

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Memories #Disappointment #Thinking

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Pain #Ache #Shock

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Book #Thinking #Should

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Acceptance #Thinking #Rejection

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Love Is #Lasts #Stranger

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Children #Finals #Adults

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Silence #Significant #Conversation

To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Needs

Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Helping

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
-- Simon Van Booy

#People #Wonder #Being Loved

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Lonely #Sea #Should

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Now Or Never #Moments #Paradox

When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Beautiful #Children #Father

I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Fire

Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Love Is #Land #Maps

Music is only a mystery to people who want it explained. Music and love are the same.
-- Simon Van Booy

#People #Want #And Love

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Reading #Matter #Way

I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Boys #People #Paper

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Grief #Trying #Body

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Crush #Masterpiece

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Mean #Years

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Long #Dreamer #World

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Wall #People #Life Is

I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Lying #Causes

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Sophisticated #Accepting #Form

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Imperfection #Trying #Shadow

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Passion

We see in others what we want and what we fear.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Want

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Mean #Destiny #Path

Sometimes, language is the sound of longing
-- Simon Van Booy

#Sound #Language #Longing

If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Rain #Airports #Sight

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Loneliness #Alive #Persons

I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Wanted #Harder #Trusted

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Thinking #Faces #Language

Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Ruined

I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that’s the best thing I can do in life.
-- Simon Van Booy

#People #Want #Never Forget

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Lonely #Rain #Fall

You can't put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can't have one without the other.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Love Is #Next #Excitement

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
-- Simon Van Booy

#Sleep #Hands #Years

Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Mean #Successful #Records

Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord
-- Simon Van Booy

#First Love #Men #Flames

For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Home #Cities #Lost

Love requires imagination more than experience.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Imagination

Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Kings #Queens #Mean

I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Believe #World #Want

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Firsts #Artifacts

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
-- Simon Van Booy

#People #Shapes

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Drinking #Reflection #Water

Life just swallows you up, doesn't it?Just swallows you up with its everyday things
-- Simon Van Booy

#Everyday

Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Past #Clumsiness #Enough

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Comfort #Routine #Desperate

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Mistake #Trying #Rooms

The present grows within the boundaries of the past.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Past #Boundaries #Grows

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth
-- Simon Van Booy

#Lying #Circumstances

It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Hurt #Imagine #Hurts Someone

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Good Life #Keys #Life Is

But say you do find the right people - how do you love them without smothering them?...How do you not suffocate them with all the love you've built up in their absence?
-- Simon Van Booy

#Love You #People #Absence

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.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Memories #Rivers #Skins

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
-- Simon Van Booy

Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Love Is #Violence #Undone

It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.
-- Simon Van Booy

#Children #Legacy #Loved Ones