“Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough.”

— Nicholas Sparks, book The Longest Ride

Source: The Longest Ride

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Yet experience has taught me that fate is sometimes cruel and that even a boatload of hope is sometimes not enough." by Nicholas Sparks?

Nicholas Sparks646

American writer and novelist 1965

Related quotes

“The Shift hasn't happened yet, maybe it never will, but sometimes-just enough times to give me hope-my brain jars back into where it's supposed to be.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: Time has taught me not to loose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.”

Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA

As quoted in Forbes Magazine (3 December 2001)
Context: Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

“The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other