Top 90 Simon Van Booy Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.”

— Simon Van Booy

52. “Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.”

— Simon Van Booy

53. “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

54. “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

55. “Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love – enough for only an initial meeting – a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”

— Simon Van Booy

56. “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

57. “Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.”

— Simon Van Booy

58. “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

59. “Lives are staged from within.”

— Simon Van Booy

60. “I tried to convey to the boy how people’s lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.”

— Simon Van Booy

61. “Many things are hard, Danny. Life comes at you in pieces sometimes too big to avoid.”

— Simon Van Booy

62. “You are in the place that was meant for you. Everything had to be arranged like this to get you here.”

— Simon Van Booy

63. “When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.”

— Simon Van Booy

64. “I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.”

— Simon Van Booy

65. “I barely remember her, but I am still in love with her ghost.”

— Simon Van Booy

66. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Simon Van Booy

68. “Absence makes the heart grows fonder, doesn’t it?”

— Simon Van Booy

69. “Winter is for dreaming.”

— Simon Van Booy

70. “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

71. “We see in others what we want and what we fear.”

— Simon Van Booy

72. “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

73. “I think most people in the world are decent if they’re not suffering.”

— Simon Van Booy

74. “Pain is proof of something worthwhile.”

— Simon Van Booy

75. “Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others – spread as wide as history itself – who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.”

— Simon Van Booy

76. “There are some lies that, under the right circumstances, are the only truth.”

— Simon Van Booy

77. “Even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.”

— Simon Van Booy

78. “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.”

— Simon Van Booy

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

82. “But war only ends for those who have not been in one.”

— Simon Van Booy

83. “Love requires imagination more than experience.”

— Simon Van Booy

84. “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

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

— Simon Van Booy

86. “My love for you will always be stronger than any truth.”

— Simon Van Booy

87. “Thomas realized he had changed, that he was not the same man, but like everyone else, he was the result of an accident that had once taken place between nature and chance. An.”

— Simon Van Booy

88. “I never want her to know that fatherhood was the ambition of my life.”

— Simon Van Booy

89. “But sometimes you have to break rules because nothing is perfect.”

— Simon Van Booy

90. “In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn’t happened would lodge.”

— Simon Van Booy

91. “When a person is loved, they are granted the strength of all seas.”

— Simon Van Booy

92. “Before I met with my wife, I loved her very much. I didn’t know who she was, but I had a fire inside me for someone I knew existed. Now that she hangs out stars, I still love her, though we speak another language altogether.”

— Simon Van Booy

93. “I remember the bed and the crisp, yellowing sheets. I wondered how many people had slept in it. I marveled at how the pillow, like a small theater, had staged countless dreams.”

— Simon Van Booy