180 Quotes by Simon Van Booy

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.

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

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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