If you’re a fan of Nicholas Sparks novels, you know that his quotes are just as memorable as his stories. Here are some of our favorite Nicholas Sparks quotes to get you inspired.
Nicholas Sparks is a critically acclaimed, best-selling author of romance novels. His novels have been translated into over forty languages, and have sold more than sixty-five million copies worldwide.
Nicholas Sparks was born in 1965 in Omaha, Nebraska and was raised in Fairview, North Carolina. As a child, Sparks loved to write, and he wrote his first story at the age of 10. After high school, Sparks attended the University of Notre Dame, where he majored in business and finance. After college, Sparks moved to New York City, where he worked in the financial industry.
Sparks began writing full-time. his’ first novel, The Notebook, was published in 1996. The novel became a bestseller and was adapted into a popular movie. Since then, Sparks has written numerous bestselling novels, including The Lucky One, The Last Song, and Safe Haven.
107 Nicholas Sparks Quotes
- “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
2. “The truth is, the world isn’t easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.”
3. “I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours. ”
4. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”
5. “You always have a choice. It’s just that some people make the wrong one.”
6. “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.”
7. “I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”
8. “It’s never too late to do the right thing.”
9. “I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.”
10. “People didn’t change. they liked what they liked even if they didn’t understand why.”
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11. “Every great love starts with a great story.”
12. “Love should bring joy, it should grant a person peace, but here and not, it was bringing only pain.”
13. “Truth only means something when it’s hard to admit.”
14. “I love you, not just for now, but for always, and I dream of the day that you’ll take me in your arms again.”
15. “I love you more than there are fishes in the sea and higher than the moon”
16. “You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
17. “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
18. “The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.”
19. “Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.”
20. “Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.”
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21. “In a lifetime of mistakes, you two are the greatest things that have ever happened to me.”
22. “Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
23. “Our story has three parts: a beginning, a middle, and an end. And although this is the way all stories unfold, I still can’t believe that ours didn’t go on forever.”
24. “It’s the same thing. Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn’t matter where it’s directed.”
25. “What it’s like to be a parent: It’s one of the hardest things you’ll ever do but in exchange it teaches you the meaning of unconditional love.”
26. “I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.”
27. “A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.”
28. “If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”
29. “Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face – I know it’s an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”
30. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I’d hoped to give you forever”
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31. “Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again.”
32. “Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in love once usually do. It’s in their nature.”
33. “You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.”
34. “I’ll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I’ll be that.”
35. “In our time together, you claimed a special place in my heart, one I’ll carry with me forever and that no one can ever replace.”
36. “I have loved another with all my heart, and for me that has always been enough.”
37. “The most ordinary things could be made extraordinary.”
38. “So it’s not gonna be easy. It’s going to be really hard; we’re gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday.”
39. “I dont think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.”
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40. “Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.”
41. “You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.”
42. “I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday”
43. “It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.”
44. “Find out who you are, and do it on purpose.”
46. “In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.”
47. “Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.”
48. “Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you’d come back to me.”
49. “Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”
50. “Knowing there’s one thing I still haven’t told you: I now believe, by the way, that miracles can happen. ”
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51. “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.”
52. “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.”
53. “Our souls were one, if you must know and never shall they be apart; with splendid dawn, your face aglow i reach for you and find my heart”
54. “I’d learned that some things are best kept secret.”
55. “I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.”
56. “Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.”
57. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
58. “I was in love, and the feeling was even more wonderful than I ever imagined it could be.”
59. “What mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.”
60. “I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
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61. “The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”
62. “When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”
63. “He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”
64. “It’ll be hard, but life moves fast-we’ll see each other again. I know that. I can feel that. Just like I can feel how much you care for me and how much I love you”
65. “It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.”
66. “I guess what I’m trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can’t take that away.”
67. “It takes a long time to grow an old friend. Trust is built one single moment at a time.”
68. “Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.”
69. “Dreams are always crushing when they don’t come true. But it’s the simple dreams that are often the most painful because they seem so personal, so reasonable, so attainable. You’re always close enough to touch, but never quite close enough to hold and it’s enough to break your heart.”
70. “We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.”
71. “People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.”
72. “She was a stranger now, but she’d been a friend once, and that was enough for him.”
73. “It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.”
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74. “The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.”
75. “I just tell people what they already know, but are afraid to admit to themselves.”
76. “The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.”
77. “It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.”
76. “The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”
77. “Maybe I don’t want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.”
78. “When I was seventeen, I don’t think I even knew what love was. But when it’s right, it’s right, and you just know it.”
79. “Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.”
80. “Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”
81. “How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”
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82. “I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?”
83. “Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”
84. “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”
85. “Does trust have to be earned. Or is it simply a matter of faith?”
86. “True love means that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
87. “She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right people.”
88. “I finally understood what true love meant…love meant that you care for another person’s happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.”
89. “Love doesn’t mean anything if you’re not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.”
90. “That’s the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn’t easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.”
91. “Most people don’t know how to appreciate the silence. They can’t help talking.”
92. “Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
93. “If it came down to that, I’d protect you in a heartbeat.”
94. “Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.”
95. “Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.”
96. “In the end, people should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.”
97. “Silence is pure and holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking.”
98. “Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.”
99. “Because being comfortable meant she might lower her guard, and she could not let that happen.”
100. “Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen.”
101. “It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.”
102. “What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?”
103. “Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.”
104. “You’re going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it’s always their actions you should judge them by. It’s actions, not words, that matter.”
105. “Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.”
106. “It hadn’t been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she’d been an altogether different person back then.”
107. “What happens in the past, is in the past. But don’t be surprised if it comes back and haunts you.”