Van Booy Quotes

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

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

He felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten. — Simon Van Booy

When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more. — Simon Van Booy

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

The love of a
man is like a drop of color into something clear. — Simon Van Booy

That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together. — Simon Van Booy

Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort. — Simon Van Booy

He still is a little boy waiting for someone to love him. — Simon Van Booy

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

Everything you are
afraid of will never happen. It's the events you cannot
conceive of that happen. — Simon Van Booy

Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid — Simon Van Booy

She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After — Simon Van Booy

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

Without memory, time would be no use to mankind, — Simon Van Booy

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

Lives are staged from within. — Simon Van Booy

The damned would have to remain on earth in perpetual doubt. Once — Simon Van Booy

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

You are hatching from the past. — Simon Van Booy

Love is like life but longer. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

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

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

The coat-check line is long enough to fall in love with the person behind you. — Simon Van Booy

I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I — Simon Van Booy

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. — Simon Van Booy

Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn't it? — Simon Van Booy

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

Both my parents were very supportive of me in whatever I wanted to do. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter. — Simon Van Booy

Death ends a life but not a relationship. I — Simon Van Booy

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

Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he'd so faithfully carried. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

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

I live in Rome where people sit by fountains and kiss. The sound of water is the sound of love rushing between them. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

Love requires imagination more than experience. — Simon Van Booy

Love is life but longer — Simon Van Booy

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering. — Simon Van Booy

Rain says everything we cannot say to one another. t is an ancient sound that willed all life into being, but fell so long upon nothing. — Simon Van Booy

I like stories very much," the priest said. "They help me understand myself better. — Simon Van Booy

When I'm doing something, I do work hard at it. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

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

When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas. — Simon Van Booy

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

I want the sea to tell them I've found someone I want to marry and that I have to say good-bye - — Simon Van Booy

night was like a horse that tore through the forest of memory. As — Simon Van Booy

I can't stop thinking that everybody is somebody's child. — Simon Van Booy

Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be. — Simon Van Booy

I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

I once saved someone from drowning. — Simon Van Booy

Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian. — Simon Van Booy

You can't explain love" he said out loud. "That's how it gets ruined. — Simon Van Booy

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life. — Simon Van Booy

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

The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room. — Simon Van Booy

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone. — Simon Van Booy

Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In — Simon Van Booy

But war only ends for those who have not been in one. — Simon Van Booy

Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But — Simon Van Booy

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

the body is nothing but camouflage. — Simon Van Booy

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all. — Simon Van Booy

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

Dreams are the unfinished wings of our souls. — Simon Van Booy

It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life. — Simon Van Booy

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers. — Simon Van Booy

I want the sea to carry my unceasing love to their still bodies, — Simon Van Booy

. . . truth is just a lie that everyone believes. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

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. — Simon Van Booy

Hands have their own language. — Simon Van Booy

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

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

Without memory, he thought, man would be invincible — Simon Van Booy

Dreamers conquered the world long ago. — Simon Van Booy

I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper. — Simon Van Booy

Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night. — Simon Van Booy

You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here. — Simon Van Booy

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. — Simon Van Booy

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