Simon Van Booy Quotes

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?

Everybody's a multifaceted, emotional, living being, I think. Sometimes it's fun to goof around, sometimes you've got to think about things, sometimes you've got to be strange, and then you've got to be jiggly. That's just what being a human's all about.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

In our memories the stories of our lives defy chronology, resist transcription: past ambushes present, and future hurries into history.

The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

If you live in the past and allow the past to define who you are, then you never grow.

It's been my experience, Langford, that the past always has a way of returning. Those who don't learn, or can't remember it, are doomed to repeat it.

You, and you alone, decide what something means to you. Yet this is a decision that most people make based upon past feelings, experiences, understandings, or future fears. None of this has anything to do with what is going on right here, right now.

You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

A new future requires a new past.

... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

The past stays on you the way powdered sugar stays on your fingers. Some people can get rid of it but it’s still there, the events and things that pushed you to where you are now.

There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present.