Shane Koyczan Quotes

The obscurest epoch is today.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.

The farther you go, the less you know.

I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same time. And we still wouldn’t know what to do differently. Everyone just muddles through, trying not to make too many mistakes.

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

I want my life to be mystifying," she declared, although she didn't know what she meant.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Wasn't that the way it always was? You didn't know, you couldn't tell, you just let it happen... Perhaps they didn't know themselves. Sometimes the line was very fine.

Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

Sometimes there are no answers.

She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell a child that things just aren't that simple, that some questions don't have simple answers--or any answer at all?

I have no idea what happens next.

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place?

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.