Quotes by Shaun Hick

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

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 shouldnt take a life-changing event to spark change in your life.

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.

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, its just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.

It shouldnt take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.

And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.

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.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

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.

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.

Nothing listens as well as a blank page.

Pencil. Paper. Forget the world.

A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. Ive never before felt so barren, so empty. Ive 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.

Its sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someones 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.