Nicholas Sparks Quotes

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.

Not just whether but how we find our way truly matters.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

To be lost is as legitimate a part of your process as being found.

The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.

Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

I don't know where I'm really going to cha cha, but hopefully I can find a place.

He traveled in order to come home.

To reject the word is to reject the human search.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

I'm on a search for the truth.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with a purpose.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

Men in search of a myth will usually find one.

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.

I guess I was just always one of those guys who asked those fundamental questions: 'Who am I? What's this for? Why? What does this mean? Is this real?' All these pretty basic questions. I like making movies about people who are self-conscious in that way, and are trying to feel their way through the world.

Hedwig is on a quest; she's on a quest as much as Jason and the Argonauts, as much as the boy in 'A.I.' She's looking for something. She's looking for her other half, and she's on tour. Monsters, Cyclops - maybe they're her mom? - appear on various islands.

In the end, what I'm trying to say as a person who does all this travel and fashions these images is that you arrive at an approximate location but never one destination.