Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I'm not a fatalist; even if I were, what could I do about it?

Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

There are things you just can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he's ready to see you, and you can't go home again.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

And no matter what, there's not one thing in this world *or* the next that we can do or hope or guess at or wish or pray that can change it or help it one iota. Because whatever is, is. That's all. And all there is now is to be ready for it, strong enough for it, whatever it may be. That's all. That's all that matters. It's all that matters because it's all that's possible.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate

We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

There's not anything, I don't think, that I can do or accomplish.

If it is, it is, If it's not, it's not.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.