Shaun Hick > Quotes

“You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.”
― Shaun Hick

“I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”
― Shaun Hick

“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.”
― Shaun Hick

“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.”
― Shaun Hick

“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.”
― Shaun Hick

“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.”
― Shaun Hick

“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.”
― Shaun Hick

“I am full of mistakes and imperfections and therefore I am real ...”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“I saw you before. All your flaws, your imperfections. Your body’s going to a lot of trouble to hide something, something inside of you. It must be very precious.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“You’re a clever strategist, but not all battles require tricks. Sometimes the simplest way to kill something is to swim up to it and bite it in half.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“No, if your life is without pain and anger and desperation then you are living it all wrong. You are not living at all.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“Nothing listens as well as a blank page.”
― Shaun Hick

“At some point your candle will go out, so make use of the light.”
― Shaun Hick

“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'.”
― Shaun Hick

“There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.”
― Shaun Hick

“Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.”
― Shaun Hick

“I have often believed the pen to be a needle, and ink to be a thread. Each story is an intricately woven tapestry and with each word I invariably sew a piece of myself into the page.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“If you doubt, you fall, you fail, you die. Do not doubt.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“... being different, being unique ... that afforded me a life, a journey that I am now so thankful for.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“I hasten to sleep so that I might dream
and colour my mind with a myriad of things.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“It might do me well to trip and fall,
to stumble blindly and to crawl,
for some reason ...
or none at all.”
― Shaun Hick

“I ache to swim again. Walking’s for mammals.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“If you concentrate on small, manageable steps you can cross unimaginable distances.”
― Shaun Hick

“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.”
― Shaun Hick

“We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.”
― Shaun Hick, The Army of Five Men

“Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.”
― Shaun Hick, The Ghost And Its Shadow

“And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.”
― Shaun Hick