Top 90 Simon Van Booy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You were unsure which pain is worse – the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”

— Simon Van Booy

2. “Coincidences mean you’re on the right path.”

— Simon Van Booy

3. “Every moment is the paradox of now or never.”

— Simon Van Booy

4. “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

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

— Simon Van Booy

6. “Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.”

— Simon Van Booy

7. “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

8. “For those who are lost, there will always be cities that feel like home.”

— Simon Van Booy

9. “The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.”

— Simon Van Booy

10. “I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person – a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge – is perpetually waving.”

— Simon Van Booy

11. “Actually, years mean nothing. It’s what’s inside them.”

— Simon Van Booy

12. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

14. “Dreamers conquered the world long ago.”

— Simon Van Booy

15. “I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.”

— Simon Van Booy

16. “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

17. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

18. “He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.”

— Simon Van Booy

19. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

20. “She told me that love is when a person introduces you to yourself for the first time. After.”

— Simon Van Booy

21. “I don’t see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.”

— Simon Van Booy

22. “Hands have their own language.”

— Simon Van Booy

23. “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

24. “Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.”

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

26. “I didn’t know who she was, but I had this fire inside me for someone I knew existed.”

— Simon Van Booy

27. “I can’t stop thinking that everybody is somebody’s child.”

— Simon Van Booy

28. “Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.”

— Simon Van Booy

29. “Language is like drinking from one’s own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.”

— Simon Van Booy

30. “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. Magda.”

— Simon Van Booy

31. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

33. “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

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

— Simon Van Booy

35. “I want to feel it somehow happened like that because things happen for a reason. I want to believe this more than anything because if it were just an accident, then God must have died before he could finish the world.”

— Simon Van Booy

36. “The present grows within the boundaries of the past.”

— Simon Van Booy

37. “Your grief is something to be admired – the pain of severance. A scar where something used to be.”

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

39. “My old geography professor once told his class how the music, paintings, sculptures, and books of the world are mirror in which people see versions of themselves.”

— Simon Van Booy

40. “You may wonder why I haven’t killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.”

— Simon Van Booy

41. “You can’t put a price on the rituals of love, because you never know what will happen next. I suppose fear is part of the excitement and we can’t have one without the other.”

— Simon Van Booy

42. “Lives are staged from within.”

— Simon Van Booy

43. “As an archaeologist, I’ve often wondered how we as a race keep going through all the misery. The answer is revealed: the potential for closeness with strangers. Floating.”

— Simon Van Booy

44. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

46. “That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be left with nothing. By running away at least she would have the joy of knowing she was missed.”

— Simon Van Booy

47. “Royal Young’s writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.”

— Simon Van Booy

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48. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

49. “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

50. “I wanted to explain that trusting is harder than being trusted.”

— Simon Van Booy