Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Sometimes love is calm and easy and sometimes it's just plain dirty.

Love is lovelier The second time around.

Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Surely love is both work and wages.

To me, marriage is a dead thing. It is an institution, and you cannot live in an institution; only mad people live in institutions. It is a substitute for love. Love is dangerous: to be in love is to be in a storm, constantly. You need courage and you need awareness, and you are to be ready for anything. There is no security in love; love is insecure. Marriage is a security: the registry office, the police, the court are behind it. The state, the society, the religion - they are all behind it. Marriage is a social phenomenon. Love is individual, personal, intimate.

That love doesn’t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun.

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived.

How do people stay in love, anyway? Is it a choice? Or is it like those plants we studied in biology that mutate into something new and totally different but are still part of the same plant family?

Love is ever evolving and it takes compromise, work and patience.

To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact. They are not burnt by even the red fire of physical passion - far less by the white fire of love.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Fortunately for women, most men mistake loneliness for love before marriage, and habit for happiness afterward.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

Tell me love isn't true, it's just something that we do.

Love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

No people find each other more absurd than lovers

Love is just an institution.

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent.