Nicholas Sparks: Quotes about life (page 3)

“Nothing is really lost or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world,
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing…
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers
left from early fires,
… shall duly flame again”

“Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.”

“If it's over--if it's really over--then don't let it screw up the rest of your life.”

“Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.”

“How about we just see where life takes us for awhile?”

“That’s the thing about life, he knew. There was always a but.”

“It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”

“I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.”

“When I was seventeen, my life changed forever…”

“Dawson, she knew, had saved Alan's life- but in the end, he'd saved Jared's as well. And for her that meant… everything. 'I gave you the best of me,' he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd done exactly that.”

“The saddest people I've met in my life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.”

“That life isn't fair?" Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief… lessens.”

“Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. it's actions, not words, that matter.”

“Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?”

“One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.”

“A woman shaking in fear from demons in her mind, and the old man who loves her more deeply than life itself, crying softly in the corner, his face in his hands.”

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure - despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”

“Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.”

“One day, you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.”