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…

— 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…

— Shane Koyczan

I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and…

— Shane Koyczan

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

— Shane Koyczan

I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And…

— Shane Koyczan

Effort is the siamese twin of success

— Shane Koyczan

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way…

— 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

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

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Shane Koyczan

Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people…

— Shane Koyczan

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was…

— Shane Koyczan

“He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to…

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Shane Koyczan

I make a good living doing what I do.

— 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

“It’s not magic. I remember because I make comparisons. Not in terms of better or worse, just different. And not all of…

— Shane Koyczan

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable…

— Shane Koyczan

I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the…

— Shane Koyczan

What I said was I’ll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was…

— 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…

— Shane Koyczan

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

— Shane Koyczan

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

— Shane Koyczan

His mom and dad had the audacity to tell him get over it as if depression can be remedied by any of…

— Shane Koyczan