Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Music
Reaches
Think
Allows
Thinking
Terms
Life
Beyond
Term
Face
Faces
Language
Aspired

More quotes by Simon Van Booy

Image
It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: the history of how you felt.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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?
Simon Van Booy
Image
Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Music helps us understand where we have come from but, more importantly, what has happened to us.
Simon Van Booy
Image
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.
Simon Van Booy
Image
The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’re not the first to die.
Simon Van Booy
Image
They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands
Simon Van Booy
Image
Hands have their own language.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
Simon Van Booy
Image
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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
Image
Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.
Simon Van Booy