Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I'm very devoted to my husband and we've been together for a very long time.

It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.

I've been married for 22 years. That's the only person I want.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist.

You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said. "Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.

There are things about signing on to a process over the long term that protect you from the buffeting winds of change.

The real issue is, how much goodwill do you invest in the work? And goodwill is not something that we can buy with money. It's very hard to buy goodwill with money.

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.

My heart is ever at your service.

The intention of being married is the vow, right? You want to put everything into it to make it a success.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife, till death separate you.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

You don't earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day.

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable.

The real bond and real love is something that is actually worth fighting for.

I claim you as my life mate. I belong to you. I offer my life for you. I give to you my protection, my allegiance, my heart, my soul, and my body. I take into my keeping the same that is yours. Your life, happiness, and welfare will be cherished and placed above my own for all time. You are my life mate, bound to me for all eternity and always in my care.

I'm kind of the long-hauler type of person. I also have a strong work ethic and gratitude for people that I work with.