Latest Simon Van Booy Quotes from Interviews

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• Some studies show that we're physically attracted, like animal attraction, to people that have a different immune system to us. So even though I love cologne, it's probably keeping me from finding a good mate.

  Simon Van Booy

  Animal, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When I was in my early twenties, I fell in love at least 20 times a day. You have to be with someone where you think: if the world was full of people like you, I could not be monogamous. As you get older, you get to know yourself a little more. The older you get, the more you realize what you need. And you also realize how your choice in relationships is influenced by how you grew up. Now I feel like I've explored the dynamic of how I grew up, and I'm free to find someone who's really going to be a wonderful companion.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Taken, Thinking, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think you can love someone and be infatuated with them, too. But infatuation is immediate, while the sort of love in the West is something you build with someone. It's a trust.

  Simon Van Booy

  Thinking, Infatuation, Infatuated

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Relationships break down, because it's about self. But when you take the "I" out of it and you're like, how can I make them happy, that means sacrifice. I think you have to be prepared to sacrifice, and a lot of people just aren't willing to. You have to give up a piece of yourself. By doing that, you get a greater sense of who you are. When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.

  Simon Van Booy

  Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Athens is the birthplace of modern tragedy. In the Greek tragic plays, the tableau of the characters would become a statue, like the statue of Oedipus reaching up to the Gods with blood spilling out of his eyes. I love the way the Greeks would immortalize experience. Things that all of us feel.

  Simon Van Booy

  Character, Eye, Greek

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

  Simon Van Booy

  Enemy, Trying, Sometimes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.

  Simon Van Booy

  Falling In Love, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com