Top 50 Beau Taplin Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The hours between 12am and 6am have a funny habit of making you feel like you’re either on top of the world, or under it.”

— Beau Taplin

2. “Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest – thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”

— Beau Taplin

3. “She was unstoppable. Not because she did not have failures or doubts, bit because she continued on despite them.”

— Beau Taplin

4. “I am awfully sentimental. Of books, belongings, people, places. It matters very little how positive or negative the experience was. If it shared some meaningful time in my life, I’ll have trouble letting go.”

— Beau Taplin

5. “It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.”

— Beau Taplin

6. “I still hold onto a small, childish hope that there’s someone out there in this crazy, wild world so completely, utterly meant for me even the stars will sigh, at last! in relief at our meeting.”

— Beau Taplin

7. “Some goodbyes are not ends but releases.”

— Beau Taplin

8. “Hearts aren’t handcuffs and people aren’t prisons. When you feel it’s time for you to leave, you leave. You neither need to wait to be released, nor ask for permission.”

— Beau Taplin

9. “There’s a corner of my heart that is yours. And I don’t mean for now, or until I’ve found somebody else, I mean forever. I mean to say that whether I fall in love a thousand times over or once or never again, there’ll always be a small quiet place in my heart that belongs only to you.”

— Beau Taplin

10. “It’s interesting to note that the most kind and courageous souls you meet in life tend to be those who’ve faced the most cruelty and conflict. This vicious world might sharpen us like a blade, but whether we use that power to protect people or cause them pain is always our choice.”

— Beau Taplin

11. “Sometimes, home has a heartbeat.”

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12. “I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK.”

— Beau Taplin

13. “It’s been a long, hard road, but I’ve finally found the closure I need to move on. I’ve learned to accept that my all is not always going to be enough and love is neither owned nor earned; it either is or it’s not. I gave you the world, but you wanted the stars.”

— Beau Taplin

14. “I’m tired of trying to fill up my empty spaces with things I don’t need and people I don’t like.”

— Beau Taplin

15. “But how can you love a person who is not whole? Because you, like the moon, are not only beautiful when full. In all of your phases and fractions and ivory-white pieces, I love you.”

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16. “A sharp intellect and a heart from hell.”

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17. “People are oceans. You cannot know them by their surface.”

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18. “The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different are what make you irreplaceable.”

— Beau Taplin

19. “Perhaps the butterfly is proof that you can go through a great deal of darkness yet still become something beautiful.”

— Beau Taplin

20. “I had learned even loneliness could leave an absence if it had lived in you long enough.”

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21. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.”

— Beau Taplin

22. “What a sad thought it is, that some of us will surrender and settle down long before we have met the person we are supposed to love.”

— Beau Taplin

23. “You were a risk, a mistery, and the most certain thing I’d ever known.”

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24. “I’m beginning to recognise that real happiness isn’t something large and looming on the horizon ahead, but something small, numerous and already here. The smile of someone you love. A decent breakfast. The warm sunset. Your little everyday joys all lined up in a row.”

— Beau Taplin

25. “Some people are magic, and others are just the illusion of it.”

— Beau Taplin

26. “Be careful. There are people out there who will look at your love only as a place to put their pain.”

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27. “Because see, a sunset is proof, my dearest, eternal sweetheart, that endings can often be beautiful too.”

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28. “Sunsets are proof that endings can often be beautiful too.”

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29. “I never wanted a quiet, sensible sort of love. I wanted to be devoured.”

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30. “I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don’t know my way around and have conversations in languages I cannot entirely comprehend. There is always this tremendous longing in my heart to be lost, the be someplace else, to be far far away from all of this.”

— Beau Taplin

31. “There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.”

— Beau Taplin

32. “I’m not interested in light little flings, skin-deep attractions, or long loveless marriages. With you, I only want raw, full-blooded connection, to share a bond full of passion and breathtaking adventure. After all, love is not a pastime but a privilege.”

— Beau Taplin

33. “We sit in silence and watch the stars, I suppose because there are no words, not in all the languages on earth, that can properly describe the feeling of being in love. And perhaps those little burning lights out there in the dark, are the closest we come to something that does.”

— Beau Taplin

34. “Kiss me until I forget how terrified I am of everything wrong with my life.”

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35. “Don’t tell me this hurts for you too. A killer cannot sue for the bruises on his knuckles or the blood on his shoes.”

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36. “Hello Goodbye Goodbyes take a great deal of courage, but what takes even more is the hello that comes next. To cast your aversions aside despite all you have suffered and take a chance on somebody new. To risk it all again because you see that human connection is precious and rare and always worth the risk.”

— Beau Taplin

37. “I will never ask you to fight for me. I have neither the insecurity nor the arrogance to believe that wars must be won and lost to earn or keep my love.”

— Beau Taplin

38. “A relationship should not be measured in months or years. It’s the calibre of the memories that matter. Their impact, their permanence, and the degree to which they change you. I’ve had relationships lasting years I can now scarcely recollect, and hours with others that feel like infinities.”

— Beau Taplin

39. “You might not be the first to crawl into my heart, kiss me apart, or share my skin in the dark, but you could be the first one who matters; you could be the first one who lasts.”

— Beau Taplin

40. “Falling for a person isn’t a process. You can’t plan for it in advance, or anticipate its arrival. Love strikes in single moments. Anywhere. Anytime. Some day you catch them gardening in the sun, or singing dreadfully in the shower, and you think, Oh, I could spend all my life with you.”

— Beau Taplin

41. “You completely redefine my idea of what love is and should be. That it needn’t be possessive, volatile or detrimental to your well-being, but can be selfless, gentle and consistent – and should empower you to pursue your passions. That it should balance and enrich a life, not tear it to pieces.”

— Beau Taplin

42. “If you’re with her and you wish you were elsewhere then leave. One of the cruellest things you can do to a person is make them feel like home when to you they’re only temporary. We all deserve adoration and undistracted attention. We all deserve to feel complete. If you can’t give her your whole heart, then don’t you dare hold it hostage.”

— Beau Taplin

43. “Love is neither owed nor earned. It either is or it’s not. I gave you the world. But you wanted the stars.”

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44. “It hurts my head to think of how many things had to happen for our paths to intersect. Of all those numberless little fortunes that led me to you. A broken alarm clock, a delayed train, a sudden downpour, and there we were. You and I, sharing coffee, our whole lives ahead of us.”

— Beau Taplin

45. “I think the beating in our hearts was put there to remind us that even when we are alone in the world, we march on. That even in the enormous dark and quiet, we always have someone to lean on, to embrace and turn to. That even when we have no one else, we always have ourselves.”

— Beau Taplin

46. “I wanted to be devoured.”

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47. “No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don’t you dare ever allow them to hurt you.”

— Beau Taplin

48. “It’s not that you left. I’m okay with that. I’ve learned to accept it. It’s that it was too damn easy. It’s that you didn’t think twice.”

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49. “The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.”

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50. “My heart is not captured easily. I am disinterested in small talk, disillusioned with love, and too focused on my dreams and aspirations to lend anybody my attention for long.”

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