Simon Van Booy Quotes

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

I remember, growing up, losing a sister, and - life is short. Make the most of your opportunities.

Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

You just never know when somebody's gonna die. It could happen at any moment so you've got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then - my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you - because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.

I don't fear death or ageing, but I fear them in other people that I am close to.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

Never forget how precious life is or your loved ones.

I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.

Love that well which thou must leave ere long.