Shaun Hick
19 quotes
"You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun."
"I may be going nowhere, but what a ride."
"Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive."
"Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape."
"At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light."
"It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life."
"It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life."
"And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole."
"This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world."
"We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering."
"Pencil. Paper. Forget the world."
"Nothing listens as well as a blank page."
"A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... my enemy. My enemy."
"There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions."
"Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen."
"It's sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someone's day is a smile or kind word, or the generous actions of a complete stranger. Small things, the tiny details, these are the things that matter in life — the little glint in the eye, curve of a lip, nod of a head, wave of a hand — such minuscule movements have huge ripple effects."
"You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do."I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you."
"The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match."
"Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'."