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

Shane Koyczan Quotes

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

— Shane Koyczan

Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and not science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why.

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Shane Koyczan

We’re all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

— Shane Koyczan

I’ve been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Shane Koyczan

I accept any challenge, so challenge me.

— 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

Effort is the siamese twin of success.

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Effort

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

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

— Shane Koyczan

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

— 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

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

— Shane Koyczan

I was never meant to be this thing...

— Shane Koyczan

Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth.

— Shane Koyczan

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

— 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

I make a good living doing what I do.

— Shane Koyczan

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