It's Not Yet Dark Quotes

“Our lives are not the legacy we leave behind, or the value of the work that we do. Our lives happen inbetween the deeds and ideas that define us. Each of us feels it, the mystery, the strangeness of life on earth. Of life and death. We feel it when we travel, we feel it when we stay at home. We feel it when a loved one dies or when a loved one is born.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“Time is a trick. From an outside vantage point we live a certain length of time, one that we measure in minutes, hours and seconds, birthdays and anniversaries. But we don’t live at a vantage point to ourselves: we are immersed. We live in fits and starts and jumps, like dreams. And the lives we inhabit are measured in moments, irrespective of time. How we live is strange and uncertain and not written on any map.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“Some days you can just see clearly. Our meaning, what we value, is the most private part of us. It may just define us. It shapes everything we do, everything we say, everything we feel, everything we dream. It’s hidden, from others, from ourselves. There is no mirror to show us what we value. So often it is only revealed to us after the fact, in the long movie reel of memory. And when we see it, our heart stops, aching with recognition. It is a beautiful thing to see yourself.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“Happiness is a moment above water. Listen to me because I’m drowning.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“Our lives happen in between the deeds and ideas that define us. Each”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“I watch the people as they enter. Their faces. Something on their faces. And then I realise. It’s on everyone’s face here. In the restaurant. In the pizza place. Ease. Simple human ease. It’s evening, and between the stresses and strains, loss and pains, these people have found momentary reprieve. I don’t know any of these people, but it’s written on their faces. Something I have lost. I have been told I am going to die. Very soon. And ease has left me.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark

“It’s only important that you remember that behind every disease is a person. Remember that and you have everything you need to travel through my country.”
― Simon Fitzmaurice, It's Not Yet Dark