180 Quotes by Simon Van Booy

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 think most people in the world are decent if they’re not suffering.

Up here on this forgotten elbow of land, I have nothing to lose, and though I am more afraid now than I have ever been, I am relieved, I am unburdened, I am ascending.

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.

Each year is like putting a new coat over all the old ones. Sometimes I reach into the pockets of my childhood and pull things out.

They haven’t made love for years but sleep holding hands.

When it rains, even the most insignificant puddle is a map of the universe.

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.

Pain is proof of something worthwhile.