Nicholas Sparks: Quotes about life (page 5)

“"Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love." "Spoken like a man with plenty of experience. But keep in mind that true love lasts forever." "Poets would say that true love always ends in tragedy."”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker and Gaby Holland, Chapter 11, p. 132
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Love , Life

“…it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind…through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences:
A. It's your life + social commentary.
B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
C. No one ever said that life was fair.”

Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks about his mother Jill Sparks, Chapter 8, p. 127
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life

“…you have to give them both credit for being good parents simply because of the way their kids turned out. We're happily married, successful, ethical, and we remained close as siblings. If your kids can say the same thing later in life, won't you think you did a good job as a parent?”

Nicholas Sparks

Dana Sparks, Chapter 14, p. 247
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life , Way , Thinking , Parent

“…(in the army) you're forced to learn the most important lesson in life, and that's the fact that you have to live up to your responsibilities, and you better do it right. When given an order, you can't say no. It's no exaggeration to say that lives are on the line. One wrong decision, and your buddy might die. It's this fact that makes the army work. That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day after day or how they can fight for something they may not believe in. Not everyone does. …but when all is said and done, we do what we do for one another. For friendship. Not for country, not for patriotism, not because we're programmed killing machines, but because of the guy next to you. You fight for your friend, to keep him alive, and he fights for you, and everything about the army is built on this simple premise.”

Nicholas Sparks

John Tyree, Chapter 1, p. 18-19
2000s, Dear John (2006)

Life , Friendship , People , Guy

“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. At the deepest level, he'd come to understand that life could end at any moment, and it was better to be happy than busy.”

Nicholas Sparks

Micah Sparks, Chapter 17, p. 339
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life , Understanding , Business , Happiness

“These days, it seemed that the only thing he was certain about was the knowledge that he wouldn't trade his years with Gabby for anything. Without her, his life had little meaning. He was a small-town husband with a small-town occupation and his cares were no different from anyone else's. He'd been neither a leader nor a follower, nor had he been someone who would be remembered long after he passed away. He was the most ordinary of men with only one exception: He'd fallen in love with a woman named Gabby, his love deepening in the years they'd been married. But fate had conspired to ruin all that, and now he spent long periods of his days wondering whether it was humanly possible to fix things between them.”

Nicholas Sparks

Travis Parker, Chapter 15, p. 199
2000s, The Choice (2007)

Love , Life , Men , Fate

“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are part of that.”

Nicholas Sparks

Micah Sparks, Chapter 9, p. 132
2000s, Three Weeks with My Brother (2004)

Life , Parting

“Life was about spending time together, about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as they watched the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life had to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?”

Nicholas Sparks

Lexie Darnell, Chapter 17, p. 269
2000s, True Believer (2005)

Life , Family , Way , Time

“Dying is a strange business, and I'm not going to bore you with the details. I might have weeks or I might have months and though it's a cliche, it's true that so many of the things I once believed to be important no longer are. …I find myself reflecting on the essential moments of my life.”

Nicholas Sparks

Carly, Chapter 43, p. 336
2009, Safe Haven (2010)

Life , Business

“As your father used to say, we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life, and mine has been filled with joy because of you.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ruth Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 78
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Life , Joy

“Where does a story truly start? In life, there are seldom clear-cut beginnings, those moments when we can, in looking back, say that everything started. Yet these are moments when fate intersects with our daily lives, setting in motion a sequence of events whose outcome we could never have foreseen”

Nicholas Sparks

Narrator, Prologue, p. 1
2000s, A Bend in the Road (2001)

Life , Fate

“It was like a vacation, one he hadn't planned for, but one that left him feeling more rested than he had in years. For the first time in what seemed like forever, he was choosing the pace of his life rather than his life choosing the pace. Being bored, he decided, was an underrated art form.”

Nicholas Sparks

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 4, p. 52
2000s, At First Sight (2005)

Life , Art , Feeling , Time

“Nowadays, she thought, it was the little things in life that mattered. If the highlights in her past set the tone, it was the day-by-day events that now defined who she was.”

Nicholas Sparks

Julie Barenson, Chapter 1, p. 11
2000s, The Guardian (2003)

Life , Past

“My Dearest Catherine,
I miss you, my darling, as I always do, but today is especially hard because the ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together.”

Nicholas Sparks

Garrett Blake, Chapter 1, p. 20
1990s, Message in a Bottle (1998)

Life , Singing

“As much as I love her, I admit that she has always remained somewhat of an enigma to me…
I liked this about her. I liked the mystery she added to my life. I liked the occasional silence between us, for ours was a comfortable silence. It was a passionate silence, one that had its roots in comfort and desire.”

Nicholas Sparks

Ira Levinson, Chapter 17 Ira, p. 222-223
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Love , Life , Silence , Passion