Shane Koyczan Quotes

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

We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty. ~ Shane Koyczan

So men and women were born into workers
Because ideas like
Right and wrong
Get outweighed by need
Anytime you've got mouths to feed. ~ Shane Koyczan

I make a good living doing what I do. ~ Shane Koyczan

If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion. ~ Shane Koyczan

I remember how my grandmother tried to explain our world to me she told me a story she said the ground and the sky love each other but they don't have arms so rain is how they hold one another. ~ Shane Koyczan

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. ~ Shane Koyczan

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways, ~ Shane Koyczan

Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. ~ Shane Koyczan

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 ~ Shane Koyczan

She tells me about dreams. She says my dreams are helium and balloons, and I've made the mistake of letting go a few to many times, but I still got this one. Tied around my finger like a wedding ring because even though I don't believe in marriages, I'm gonna bring this one home. ~ Shane Koyczan

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

And you are worth the time it takes to take the time to get to know you. We've managed to muttle through the awkward stage of i like you and you like me, but when we both finally said 'yes' life became a multiple choice test, not knowing anything we became each others best guess. and, holding your hand is less like exploration and more like discovery. lady, i don't have to study you to be sure. you're the choice i made before i knew what the other choices were ~ Shane Koyczan

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt. ~ Shane Koyczan

I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process. ~ Shane Koyczan

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

Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life. ~ Shane Koyczan

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

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. ~ Shane Koyczan

So if anyone ever tells you:
You're not good enough!
You're not smart enough!
Give up your foolish dream!
If anyone ever tells you to quit,
You got to make them wear a diaper on their mouth
Because, man, they're just talking shit. ~ Shane Koyczan

There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that. ~ Shane Koyczan

For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate. ~ Shane Koyczan

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does. ~ Shane Koyczan

I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's going to break it. Take it from me, under the bed is not a good hiding spot. ~ Shane Koyczan

Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light. ~ Shane Koyczan

Please, sit in my sky and let me polish your shine. ~ Shane Koyczan

I think of the beauty in the obvious,
the way it forces us to admit how it exists,
the way it insists on being pointed out like a bloody nose,
or how every time it snows there is always someone around to say, "It's snowing."
But the obvious isn't showing off, it's only reminding us that time passes,
and that somewhere along the way we grow up.
Not perfect, but up and out.
It teaches us something about time,
that we are all ticking and tocking,
walking the fine line between days and weeks,
as if each second speaks of years,
and each month has years listening to forever but never hearing anything beyond centuries swallowed up by millenniums,
as if time was calculating the sums needed to fill the empty belly of eternity.
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.


My chest is a cannon that I have used to take aim and shoot my heart upon this world.
I love the way an uncurled fist becomes a hand again, because when I take notes,
I need it to underline the important parts of you:
happy, sad, lovely.
Battle cry ballistic like a disaster or a lipstick earthquaking a ~ Shane L. Koyczan

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff? ~ Shane Koyczan

We wear our lives
Like costumes
Use bills and coins like props
In an over budget production
That we cannot seem to stop
So it just goes on like this
As if we accept this
As if we've all become
Buddhas of mass production
Our brains rotting
Like teeth
Under the sweet
Unending bliss of false enlightenment. ~ Shane Koyczan

That's what we were told - stand up for yourself. But that's hard to do if you don't know who you are. ~ Shane Koyczan

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 ~ Shane Koyczan

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

I accept that today may be imperfect ... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy. ~ Shane Koyczan

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris ... and then I will walk. ~ Shane Koyczan

This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine. ~ Shane Koyczan

(...)

That winter you left me snow-blind trying to find enough details that would let you know that even though some people have perfect sight,
those same people could try to paint you by numbers and they still wouldn't get you right.
You were Monet number two and Van Gogh number 6,
a mix tape of Hendrix and Leibowitz portraits.

It makes no sense to me that we were ever together.
And my makeshift weather reports were the closest I ever came to telling you how I felt.
But you were a lover of the minuscule,
you dealt best with details.
Weighing our relationship on scales you balanced us out, and always made me feel needed.

You always asked me what to wear,
and I would stare at you as if for a second I wouldn't answer.
Of course, I always did.
Hid my affections, and my response:
"wear that smile" I said.
That one you wear when you see me.
That one you wear to bed. ~ Shane L. Koyczan

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained. ~ Shane Koyczan

When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing. ~ Shane Koyczan

It's not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just different. And not all of these memories are great, but they're mine.
Which lends way to believe, that none of our lives are put together on an assembly line. We're not pre-packaged with memories or programmed with stories. We have to make our own. ~ Shane Koyczan

We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest. ~ Shane Koyczan

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

And what I said was I'll miss you,
What I meant to say was that I love you,
What I wanted to say was that I meant what I said
I miss you like I miss my own bed
after too many nights of sleeping on couches
or hardwood floors
Or sitting silently behind the doors
Of hotel rooms became wounds
Breathing life in to this loneliness
I miss you
Like a burn victim must miss their own skin
I miss you like a sad ending
Must miss someplace new to begin
Because some say that the highway becomes a flat line
if you travel it for too long
I can't tell if that's true or false,
But I'm racing down it towards you trying to find my
Pulse. ~ Shane Koyczan

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. ~ Shane Koyczan

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

I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time. ~ Shane Koyczan

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

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who they are despite being told what they were, it was TED. ~ Shane Koyczan

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently. ~ Shane Koyczan

Effort is the siamese twin of success ~ Shane Koyczan

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

We used to stay inside for recess
because outside was worse ~ Shane Koyczan

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)] ~ Shane Koyczan

We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity ~ Shane Koyczan

But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized. ~ Shane Koyczan

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for. ~ Shane Koyczan

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by space
And I learnt that time slows near a black hole.
Inside a black hole, time stops altogether.
Whether or not this theory will ever be proved,
I'm moved to believe this would be the perfect place to love someone. ~ Shane Koyczan

Marry me, Rebecca ... You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it. ~ Nora Roberts

I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift. ~ Shane Warne

We have not shown the world another way of doing life. Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way. ~ Shane Claiborne

You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format. ~ Shane Smith

Look through the prayer books. You'll see lots of dates. You'll see names of Native Americans remembered. This was an open-sourcing project among so many people. ~ Shane Claiborne

One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song. ~ Shane McAnally

Obstacles will always be there, but you can be triumphant over the shackles of the past and break through all obstacles. ~ Shane DeCreshio

I think a lot of people haven't even seen my videos but just hearing my name are like "Oh, that's that dumb Internet thing." And I'm definitely trying to shake that a little bit. ~ Shane Dawson

We give people fish. We teach them to fish. We tear down the walls that have been built up around the fish pond. And we figure out who polluted it. ~ Shane Claiborne

Brave doesn't mean 'fearless,' you know. It means doing the right thing even if you're frightened. ~ Shane Gericke

You don't have to solve problems for others. You can let them be uncomfortable. ~ Shane Parrish

Truth without love, isn't. ~ Shane Hipps

Jesus comes from Nazareth, a town from which folks said nothing good could come. He knew suffering from the moment he entered the world as a baby refugee born in the middle of a genocide. Jesus knew poverty and pain until he was tortured and executed on a Roman cross. This is the Jesus we are called to follow. With his coming we learn that the most dangerous place for Christians to be is in comfort and safety, detached from the suffering of others. Places that are physically safe can be spiritually deadly. ~ Shane Claiborne

She stuck out her tongue at him, and he leaned forward and -- to her horror -- licked it. "Ewwww!"
"Then don't stick it out." Shane smiled. "If you're going to hang out in my room and tempt me, there's a penalty. One item of clothing per minute comes off."
"Perv."
He pointed to himself. "Male and eighteen. What's your point?"
"You are so -- "
"Say, you got any pleated miniskirts and knee socks? I really get off on -- ~ Rachel Caine

Don't expect the answers overnight. This isn't a fortune cookie.
- The Duke to Delaine; discussing dating after divorce, Chapter 9 ~ Delaine Moore

And when you are kept from your home, no matter where you are, you are in a cage. ~ Shane Arbuthnott

I promised myself as a kid that I would not become that guy. So I have my finger on the pulse of what is going on and I love relevant music today. We are talking about artists like Kendrick Lamar, School Boy Q, Absoul, that whole crew. Of course Evidence and Alchemist, those guys are my brothers and I love those guys, they have been lifelong friends but I have always sort of looked up to them artistically. ~ Shane Bunting

When you realise that money doesn't actually make you happy, it's a quick fix to have things you've always wanted, but then when you have it, you realise that's not what actually makes you happy. It's more about having a great marriage and happy children; that's what life's all about. ~ Shane Filan

I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure ... ~ Shane MacGowan

Keith felt huge inside of him, remained still for only a long moment, didn't seem to care about giving Shane time to adjust, just seemed intent on moving. Fucking. Rutting. His ~ S.E. Jakes

Shane and Claire quickly moved to stand back to back. So did Eve and Michael. Among the
four of them, they were covering every angle.
"Lurking isn't answering," Shane said. "Oliver? Little help?"
Instead, one of the shapes stepped forward into the light. Morley. Claire felt relieved, and
annoyed. Of course it was Morley. Why had she ever doubted it? He was the champion lurker
of all time. ~ Rachel Caine

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with ... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff. ~ Shane Warne

I'm constantly surprised by ... an orange will roll off a table, and I'll catch it before I knew it was falling. Something happens there. We could write it off and say, 'Subconsciously I knew that was happening,' but there's so many things every day - I'm amazed by how little we know. ~ Shane Carruth

Shane looked faintly injured. "I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway." There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn't have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it. ~ Rachel Caine

There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church it sees and becomes the church it dreams of. ~ Shane Claiborne

No, not you two. Stay here.'
'Does he just not get how unfair and sexist that is?' Eve asked. 'Men.'
'You really want to go first?'
'Of course no. But I'd like the chance to refuse to go first. ~ Rachel Caine

We're cut off. We've lived our whole lives in this stream of information: television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, ABC, SBS, Sky News, Seven, Nine, Ten, Reuters and AFP and AP and the BBC. Up-to-date, up to the second, right there in your pocket. Now it's gone and we have no idea whether anyone else is alive or dead. They might be or they might not be. Schroedinger's world. ~ Shane Carrow

The Glory is the issue to me. Money comes and goes, but a legacy stays forever. I hate to lose ~ Shane Mosley

Lord, you have conquered death and triumphed over evil. There is nothing left for us to fear. Put us to work on this earth, striving for the kingdom in everything we do. Let us die to ourselves each day that we might find ourselves made new in you. Amen. ~ Shane Claiborne

Everything is so fleeting and impermanent. It's enough to drive you bat shit crazy. ~ Shane Kuhn

You may like me, you may hate me. But I guarantee you'll remember me. ~ Shane Porteous

I also think there's too many players who say the same boring answers, they don't even have to turn up to interviews because journalists answer their own questions the way they ask them. Unfortunately the way it is now players are so afraid to say anything, but I'd like them to be honest. ~ Shane Warne

I don't want to sound like a badass, but I eject my USB without removing it safely. ~ April White

Once you have a certain amount of money, it ceases to be an issue. I'd rather put my cultural imprint on the fabric of life. After money, all you want is immortality. ~ Shane Smith

the plot was becoming more and more convoluted, but also more exciting. ~ Shane Stadler

God's people are not to accumulate stuff for tomorrow but to share indiscriminately with the scandalous and holy confidence that God will provide for tomorrow. Then we need not stockpile stuff in barns or a 401(k), especially when there is someone in need. ~ Shane Claiborne

Sachin Tendulkar is the hardest batsman I've ever had to bowl to because he judges the length a lot quicker than anyone else. ~ Shane Warne

CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy ~ Rachel Caine

That is the power of the Eucharist. At the communion table you have rich and poor together in the early church and they were being challenged. ~ Shane Claiborne