110+ Nicholas Sparks Quotes On Marriage, Friendship And Romantic

Nicholas Sparks is an American author best known for writing romantic fiction novels. His works include The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, and Message in a Bottle. He is also the co-author of the non-fiction book Three Weeks with My Brother. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Nicholas Sparks on love, marriage, friendship.

Top 10 Nicholas Sparks Quotes

1. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.
2. I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
3. Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
4. You are, and always have been, my dream.
5. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.
6. I want you to be.... happy.
7. 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?
8. The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.
9. 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.
10. 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.

Nicholas Sparks Short Quotes

• Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.
• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
• Love can sometimes achieve the impossible
• How far should a person go in the name of true love?
• Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.
• You might not understand but i gave you the best of me.
• It’s never too late to do the right thing.
• Loving once and only once is possible - anything is possible.
• They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
• I gave you the best of me.

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Love

When we first met, I didn't want to get involved with anyone. I didn't have the time or energy, and I wasn't sure that I was ready for it. But you were so good to me, and I got swept up in that. And little by little, I found myself falling in love with you. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea. — Nicholas Sparks

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go. — Nicholas Sparks

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee. — Nicholas Sparks

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Marriage

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 — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Each recognized the fact that real commitment could be proven only through the passage of time. — Nicholas Sparks

He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best. — Nicholas Sparks

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, in the expectation that the other will do the same. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that...they say anything's possible, right? — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Life

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. — Nicholas Sparks

Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that. — Nicholas Sparks

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning. — Nicholas Sparks

The ocean has been singing to me, and the song is that of our life together. — Nicholas Sparks

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things. — Nicholas Sparks

Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along. — Nicholas Sparks

The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. — Nicholas Sparks

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together. — Nicholas Sparks

Thank you for coming into my life and giving me joy, thank you for loving me and receiving my love in return. Thank you for the memories I will cherish forever. But most of all, thank you for showing me that there will come a time when I can eventually let you go. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Romantic

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. — Nicholas Sparks

You are every reason, every hope and every dream I've ever had. — Nicholas Sparks

I have a crush on your mind, I fell for your personality and your looks are just a big bonus. — Nicholas Sparks

I want all of you, forever, you and me, everyday — Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks

I think our love can do anything we want it to. — Nicholas Sparks

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away. — Nicholas Sparks

I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy. — Nicholas Sparks

The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it’s a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I’ve chosen to follow. — Nicholas Sparks

People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Emotional

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. — Nicholas Sparks

I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to. — Nicholas Sparks

I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the way that you want the script to be. It's really about capturing the complexity of emotions and creating the kind of characters that people will want to watch every week. — Nicholas Sparks

There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative. — Nicholas Sparks

See, that was the problem in relationships when emotion began muddying the waters. It was as if (Lexie) expected him to do or say exactly the right thing at exactly the right time, whatever that was. — Nicholas Sparks

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life. — Nicholas Sparks

You need someone who has a really good way of enabling trust in the cast and crew, or the cast particularly, to allow them the confidence to stretch themselves to get the performance that you're going to need to provide all of the emotional up and downs in the film. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Writing

I'm a novelist at heart. My sole intention is to write the best novel possible. I don't think about the film potential at all. — Nicholas Sparks

I have certain moral parameters that I do not cross in writing; I don't write about adultery or kids having premarital sex. — Nicholas Sparks

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. — Nicholas Sparks

Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all. — Nicholas Sparks

I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh? — Nicholas Sparks

By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas. — Nicholas Sparks

My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories. — Nicholas Sparks

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. — Nicholas Sparks

I suppose more than anything, it's the way of life in this part of the country that influences my writing. In Eastern North Carolina, with the exception of Wilmington, most people live in small towns. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Write

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write. — Nicholas Sparks

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. — Nicholas Sparks

I write the things that I find most attractive in women. I like intelligence, I like passion - give me a little fire, be strong, don't be wishy-washy, do the right thing. — Nicholas Sparks

It doesn't matter to me whether I write in a man's voice or a woman's, or first or third person for that matter. Those choices come down to the story and I just go with it. — Nicholas Sparks

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments. — Nicholas Sparks

In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that. — Nicholas Sparks

I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end. — Nicholas Sparks

The movies are fun, but I'm a novelist. In many ways, screenwriting is much easier than writing novels. I find screenplays twenty times easier to write than a novel. — Nicholas Sparks

I have some art, but I am a hobbyist. I would not consider myself an expert but in the course of writing this novel I became very familiar with the various movements in American Modern Art from 1900 onwards. — Nicholas Sparks

The inspiration for my novels comes from the depths of a creative well, based on asking myself questions over and over. I try to write something different each time I sit down to write; I try to surprise the readers. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About Characters

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. — Nicholas Sparks

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. — Nicholas Sparks

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination. — Nicholas Sparks

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing! — Nicholas Sparks

Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people. — Nicholas Sparks

Believe it or not, I don't collaborate with women, though my agent and editor are both females. For the most part, they do little editing on my characters. — Nicholas Sparks

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone. — Nicholas Sparks

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives? — Nicholas Sparks

I very seldom, very seldom, even know what my characters look like. — Nicholas Sparks

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Quotes About People

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

People hide the truth because they're afraid. — Nicholas Sparks

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid. — Nicholas Sparks

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. — Nicholas Sparks

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through. — Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks Famous Quotes And Sayings

Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart? — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did. — Nicholas Sparks

A person with autism lives in his own world, while a person with Asperger's lives in our world, in a way of his own choosing — Nicholas Sparks

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again. — Nicholas Sparks

We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened once, and that's why every minute we spent together has been seared in my memory. I'll never forget a single moment of it. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can. — Nicholas Sparks

A surprise trigonometry quiz that everyone in class fails? Must be in the Lord’s plan to give us challenges. — Nicholas Sparks

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. — Nicholas Sparks

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone. — Nicholas Sparks

I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response. — Nicholas Sparks

She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second. — Nicholas Sparks

I think that men know how to romance a woman and most do it well, at least for a time, otherwise women wouldn't marry them. The problem is that most of them begin to rest on their laurels. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms. — Nicholas Sparks

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. — Nicholas Sparks

I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you. — Nicholas Sparks

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving. — Nicholas Sparks

if they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it. — Nicholas Sparks

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. — Nicholas Sparks

Love is Love no matter old you are, and I knew if I gave you enough time, you'd come back to me. — Nicholas Sparks

She smiled. "I need your opinion," she said. "What do you think about something sleeveless for this weekend? With a cinched waist and a medium train?" I brought my hand to my chin and considered this. "Sounds okay," I said. "But I think I'd look better in a tuxedo. — Nicholas Sparks

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past. — Nicholas Sparks

Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offense and is not resentful. — Nicholas Sparks

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence. — Nicholas Sparks

I don't know if spirits do indeed roam the world, but even if they do, I will sense your presence everywhere. When I listen to the ocean, it will be your whispers; when I see a dazzling sunset, it will be your image in the sky. — Nicholas Sparks

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him. — Nicholas Sparks

I dont think that we're meant to understand it all the time. I think that sometimes we just have to have faith. — Nicholas Sparks

At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me. — Nicholas Sparks

Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW — Nicholas Sparks

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. — Nicholas Sparks

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. — Nicholas Sparks

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. — Nicholas Sparks

Everyone makes mistakes, even if some are worse than others. Accidents happen. — Nicholas Sparks

There are moments when mental overload can render words impossible. — Nicholas Sparks

I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end. — Nicholas Sparks

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. — Nicholas Sparks

We fell in love despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. — Nicholas Sparks

That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold. — Nicholas Sparks

It wasn't that long, and it certainly wasn't the kind of kiss you see in movies these days, but it was wonderful in its own way, and all I can remember about the moment is that when our lips touched, I knew the memory would last forever. — Nicholas Sparks

Noah Calhoun watched the fading sun sink lower from the wrap around porch of his plantation-style home.He liked to sit here in the evenings, especially after working hard all day. — Nicholas Sparks

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible. — Nicholas Sparks

Two cannibals were eating a comedian, and one of them turns to the other and asks, 'Does this taste funny to you? — Nicholas Sparks

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life. — Nicholas Sparks

“A living poem” had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks

Life Lessons by Nicholas Sparks

1. Nicholas Sparks teaches us the importance of taking risks and never giving up on our dreams. He also illustrates the power of love and how it can bring people together in the face of adversity. Lastly, he shows us that life is full of surprises and that we should always strive to make the most of every moment.