Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I used to be someone.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

I used to be.

I tend not to look back on old clips of myself or look at things I wrote or listen to something from the radio 30 years ago: I remember them, but it feels like someone else.

I look at photos of the Sochi Olympics - even though it sometimes seems like it was just yesterday - that photo doesn't even look like me. It looks like a child. I don't even recognize myself.

Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasureable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

I think through living one's life, one both changes and remains the same. One can see it either way, one can see oneself as being now what one was and one can see oneself as being absolutely different from what one was. It's a trick of thought.

I can remember how I sang - a little more nasal-y back then. Listening to those old recordings is like seeing a photograph of yourself from 10 years ago. You're wearing what you thought looked cool at the time. You had your hair styled the particular way you thought looked cool. It's an accurate depiction of who you were and what you looked and sounded like at that point in your life. It doesn't necessarily mean that it aged in a way that it feels as cool or sounds as good to you, or says what you thought it said, 10 years later. That's just the nature of growing older.

For one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.

Sometimes I miss the old me.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

There's something about that suit, he'll feel like, 'Whoa,' he'll feel like a different person, and that's what it's about.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself.

I once was the walrus, now I'm John.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.