Nicholas Sparks Quotes

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

I find it really hard to be close to anybody.

Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

How we need another soul to cling to.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.

I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

It's hard for me to trust people, and especially girls it's - I don't really like doing the whole opening-up thing with girls.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

Sometimes I'm not as open to loving.

There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

I'd been running for years: there was nothing scarier, to me, than to just be still with someone. And yet, there on that dark road, going home, I was.

The truth is, I've always been afraid of letting anyone get too close. I built a wall around me, a barricade to hide behind those few times someone wanted entry to my heart.

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

I didn't confide in men. Well, I didn't confide in anyone.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.