Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Simon Van Booy
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Writer
Stop
Behinds
Left
Room
Another
Behind
Sometimes
Rooms
Plane
Even
Goes
Ruined
Trying
Loved
Planes
Life
Somebody
Leaves
Like
Mistake
Loving

More quotes by Simon Van Booy

Image
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
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
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
Image
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
Image
The most significant conversations of our lives occur in silence.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
Simon Van Booy
Image
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.
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
Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Coincidences mean you're on the right path.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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
Image
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
Simon Van Booy
Image
I read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Language is like looking at a map of somewhere. Love is living there and surviving on the land.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.
Simon Van Booy
Image
Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
Simon Van Booy
Image
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
Image
Love is also a violence, and cannot be undone.
Simon Van Booy