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

— Shaun Hick

There is a secret earth gym, 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.

— Shaun Hick

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

— Shaun Hick

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.

— Shaun Hick

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

— Shaun Hick

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

— Shaun Hick

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.

— Shaun Hick

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.

— Shaun Hick

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.

— Shaun Hick

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

— Shaun Hick