Nicholas Sparks Quotes

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

I carry on singing because I love it. The closer you are to the end, the more you understand how important it is.

I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken away from you, and so you value what you have. I had two very nice little boys, so sweet, and a very good husband.

Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

I live a life where I have a huge support system, and I've been very lucky.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

You never know what's going to happen so just enjoy the moments that you have with the people you love and cherish them. Let them know that you love them and how much you appreciate them being in your life.

When you lose someone you love, you don't think the same way. And that's why I say I enjoy life: because it goes very fast.

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

Take love when love is given.

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

We only have one life and one body to care of, and we better do it right. You never know what tomorrow may bring and so we better live this life the best we can and be grateful for everything we have.

I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone.

We're all gonna land, we don't have rocket packs that last forever. But these things that we love, these things that give us purpose, these moments along the way are our parachutes. So I feel very fortunate to have all of these. Art and my family are pretty much my biggest parachutes.