Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

Why is everybody afraid of love?

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Sometimes you're afraid to fall in love with a chick, but she sucks you in anyway.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.

would you dare to love me?

Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till I die, 'til we both break down and cry, I want to hold you till this fear in me subsides.

Even though I'm in love, sometimes I get so afraid.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

I'm a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don't have control of every situation.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Falling in love, romance, matters of the heart - when you fall in love, on some biochemical level you know there is a chance it won't work out. It's ingrained in us that if you take such an enormous risk on someone with your heart that it might not pay off. I gamble all my chips and I might actually lose everything.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

Knowing what I know of love, I hang back because I don't like to lie to myself.

I'm a little bit afraid to give my heart away right now. It's very scary. I'm open to it, but I just want to make sure that I'm taking my time.

You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.