Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.

There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Marriage - a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I think childhood is, generally speaking, a preparation for disappointment.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.