Although he doesn’t call himself a romance novelist, he has touched millions of readers with his work that portrays romance as we ideally wish it could be. Nicholas Sparks takes us to this world where love seems perfect, although not easy. Penlighten presents to you a collection of 100 famous quotes by Nicholas Sparks that make us look at love and life as it should ideally be, or so we hope.
Nicholas Spark’s tip to future writers!
❝Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.❞
The beauty of Nicholas Spark’s writing lies in the way he treats the sensitivity of relationships with such strong and irrevocable feelings. He surely includes some arduous testing phases in an otherwise-loving union, be it death, disease, distance? But that’s just to make his readers understand that no matter what, if you are willing to make it work, it will work. Although his characters and story line is completely fictional, it still reflects some reality, or should we say, reality that could have been if people really understood the meaning of love.
While all may not agree with these thoughts, but for many of us, Nicholas Spark’s stories have sort of rekindled the fading hope of finding love. Even though it may come in with its own set of challenges and pain, but then what is life if we haven’t ‘truly’, ‘sincerely’, and ‘devotedly’ loved anyone with 100% commitment! The following quotes are for those who love the idea of being in love, to be truly, madly, deeply committed to the one who controls the beat of their hearts. Yes, these lines sound mushy, every word of them, but then, that’s what love and romance is … and we LOVE it!
100 Amazing Quotes by Nicholas Sparks on Love and Life
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.
― Dear John
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.
Love is like the wind, you can’t see it but you can feel it.
― A Walk to Remember
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.
― The Last Song
My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
― The Notebook
The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it’s over.
― Nights in Rodanthe
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change
You have to love something before you can hate it.
― The Last Song
But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.
― The Wedding
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.
― Three Weeks With My Brother
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.
Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last.
― Dear John
The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
― The Notebook
Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they’re going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn’t about surviving this, it’s about understanding this.
I don’t think that we’re meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith.
― A Walk to Remember
Life, I’ve learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.
― A Walk to Remember
When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.
― True Believer
Emotions come and go and can’t be controlled so there’s no reason to worry about them. That in the end, people should be judged by their actions since in the end it was actions that defined everyone.
― The Last Song
Love means to see the one you love happy.
― Dear John
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.
― Safe Haven
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
― A Walk to Remember
Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what’s been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it’s been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you’re questioning why terrible things have to happen.
― The Last Song
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.
― The Rescue
Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
― Message in a Bottle
Mom says it’s because she has PMS.
Do you even know what that means?
“I’m not a little kid anymore. It means pissed-at- men syndrome.”
― The Last Song
I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
― The Notebook
Everyone has a past, but that’s just it–it’s in the past. You can learn from it, but you can’t change it.
― Safe Haven
Love is a wonderful thing. It makes life worthwhile. I love being in love.
― The Choice
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?
― The Last Song
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
― The Last Song
It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so overwhelming.
― Dear John
Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.
― A Walk to Remember
Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys.
― Safe Haven
Marriage is about compromise; it’s about doing something for the other person, even when you don’t want to.
― The Wedding
EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, EVEN THE PERSONS WE LOVE.
― The Last Song
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.
― Safe Haven
Loving once and only once is possible – anything is possible.
I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
― The Notebook
Being around someone who accepts and supports you will remind you to accept and support yourself.
― The Lucky One
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can’t control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That’s what it was like for me. I didn’t plan on falling in love with you, and I doubt if you planned on falling in love with me. But once we met, it was clear that neither of use could control what was happening to us. We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has happened only once, and that’s why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory.
― The Notebook
Then we’ll find a way to work through all this together because I know I want to spend the rest of my life with you.”
― Safe Haven
You’ve gotten so caught up in being alone that you’re afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.
― Message in a Bottle
Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back.
― The Longest Ride
Don’t think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE…
It’s called TOMORROW.
I hadn’t done any of the things that I normally did with girls, yet somehow I’d fallen in love.
― A Walk to Remember
They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other ever day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
― The Notebook
If you put your trust in God, you’ll be all right in the end.
― A Walk to Remember
The truth is, the world isn’t easy for any of us. It never has been and it never will be.
― The Best of Me
It’s never too late to do the right thing.
― Safe Haven
There are guys who grow up thinking they’ll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they’re pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
― The Last Song
Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.
― The Notebook
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
― Three Weeks With My Brother
Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy.
― The Best of Me
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.
― The Notebook
You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
― The Best of Me
Love wasn’t possible in just a couple of days. Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring. Love was, above all, about commitment and dedication and a belief that spending years with a certain person would create something greater than the sum of what the two can accomplish separately.
― True Believer
Love is fragile. And we’re not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.
― The Last Song
Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
― The Rescue
Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other… I know I’ve spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
― The Notebook
It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you. I am here to learn from you and to receive your love in return.I am here because there is no other place to be.
― Message in a Bottle
Life was messy. Always had been and always would be and that was just the way it was, so why bother complaining? You either did something about it or you didn’t, and then you lived with the choice you made.
― The Best of Me
I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don’t understand what the message can be.
― A Walk to Remember
She was my dream. She made me who I am, and holding her in my arms was more natural to me than my own heartbeat. I think about her all the time. Even now, when I’m sitting here, I think about her. There could never have been another.
― The Notebook
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
― The Notebook
I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.
― A Walk to Remember
But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.
― Message in a Bottle
A person can get used to anything if given enough time.
― The Notebook
What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?
― The Notebook
Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants. Stop thinking
about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?
― The Notebook
If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.
― Message in a Bottle
The problem isn’t finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you get there that is!
― A Walk to Remember
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.
― The Notebook
Because he’s no better than a spoiled child. You were his toy, and even though he’s got new toys, it doesn’t mean he wants anyone to play with his old toys.
― The Lucky One
And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the world, but nothing would ever compare to that single moment when I first kissed the girl of my dreams and knew that my love would last forever.
― Dear John
It’s funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It’s like they think it won’t ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
― The Wedding
As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man — the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn’t exist.
― Message in a Bottle
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.
― Message in a Bottle
There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible.
― The Choice
In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life.
― The Notebook
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.
― Dear John
Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.
Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
― The Notebook
Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.
― At First Sight
I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you’ll know I’m right there with you, okay? That’s going to be me. I’ll be the light in the window.
― The Last Song
A story about family, first loves, second chances, and the moments in life that leads you back home.
― The Last Song
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.
Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn’t easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.
― Dear John
Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.
― True Believer
Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important, family’s important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You’re cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what’s coming.
― Three Weeks With My Brother
Didn’t these quotes sort of take us all back to the days where summer was the time to find love, love that was innocent and pure, love that was one of a kind? That sort of love wasn’t childish, nor was it mature. If we think of it, that was how love was supposed to be in the first place. Free from all the logic, rights, wrongs, pros, cons! Irrespective of whether or not do we find that kind of love in our lives, the books written by this man, serve very well to find a safe haven when the world tends to seem so out of love. Call it escapism for all we care, if these writings take us to our ideal picture of love and dreams, so be it.
