Quotes from Shane Koyczan

and if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself get a better mirror look a little closer stare a little longer because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit you built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself you signed it "they were wrong

We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it's remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

What I said was I'll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it's funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I'd be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I'm willing to die alone but god knows I don't want to live that way.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you've got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you're willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

I can't stop.

I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.

And if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. Stare a little longer. Because there's something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him 'Get over it'. As if depression is something that can be remedied by any of the contents in a first aid-kit.

I was never meant to be this thing...

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?

I do my best impression of a pen and when every problem looks like a page I commit ink to paper

everything she meant to say was you've given a worth and happiness to my life that I had no right to believe could ever exist

We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.