Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I'm not really a believer in romantic, happily-ever-after love stories.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

I guess it's always romantic when two people fall in love.... Even if it turns out not to be real.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Oh God, to think that you only fall in love once in your entire life is such a depressing thought.

A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song, but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about, you write a whole book.

Love is just a word, but you bring it definition.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.

Love is the great conqueror of lust.

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies

A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

Lover please do not fall to your knees it's not like I believe in everlasting love

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this.

I, who called love my hope for love.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.