Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl.

I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

I always revisit duality because I think it's a conflict we all have. I think we all leave our house and go to work, and we put on the cape and become superheroes. That's what we do. It's how we move through life and handle negativity: you do everything you can to stay away from it.

Of course I could keep fighting, but every man comes to the point when he asks himself, 'Do I need it anymore?'

I had to learn some hard lessons in my early days because I was a bit of a showman, a kind of Jekyl and Hyde character.

My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.

Most of us want to be strong, but we are not.

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it are at work in him dimly, and make their way into his imagination, and relax his muscles in the very moments when he is telling himself over again the reasons for his vow.

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

She wept with shame for her lack of will and with fear for a love she couldn't control.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.

I had to fight with myself 'cause he's so good, yet he's so popular.

here was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detached, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.

The repentant man rightfully loses trust in himself. He recognizes his self-dependence as the source of his problems, not the solution.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.