Simon Van Booy Quotes

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.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

Hands have their own language.

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.

The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.

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.

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.

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

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

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

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.

Every moment is the paradox of now or never.

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.

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

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

Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

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

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them.

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

Dreamers conquered the world long ago.

Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth