Shaun Hick

“Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.”

“There is a secret earth gyrm, a place where the unbelievable, the unthinkable, the terrible, takes place every day. A place hidden by the veils of ignorance and cowardice and fear. On occasions we glimpse it, when its hidden terrors fall through that veil into plain sight, but mostly we just dismiss it as something else, somewhere else, to be dealt with by someone else. Long ago I found the veil and lifted it. And knowing as I do what is behind, what those behind it get away with, with impunity ... I cannot grow old basking on the bank of some safe-haven, no.”

“In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.”

“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I hasten to sleep so that I might dreamand colour my mind with a myriad of things.”

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

“It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change 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.”

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

“Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”