Nicholas Sparks Zitate

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„Vielleicht stimmt es ja, dass die Natur den Menschen manchmal Zeichen schickte. Und dieses Zeichen hieß: Man darf nicht vergessen, dass auf Verzweiflung wieder Freude und Glück folgen.“

„Das wahre Kunstwerk war der Weg, den ich und Ruth gegangen sind – den man Leben nennt.“

„Aber Liebe, das habe ich inzwischen begriffen, ist mehr als drei Worte, die man kurz vor dem Einschlafen murmelt. Liebe muss sich täglich beweisen. Sie muss sich in allem, was wir tun, wiederspiegeln, voller Zärtlichkeit, jeden Tag.“

„Ich weiß nicht, dass sich die Liebe ändert. Menschen ändern sich. Die Umstände ändern sich.“

„Liebe ist wie der Wind. Man kann sie nicht sehen, aber fühlen.“

„… Ich verstand endlich, was wahre Liebe wirklich bedeutete … diese Liebe bedeutete, dass Sie sich mehr um das Glück einer anderen Person als um Ihr eigenes kümmern, egal wie schmerzhaft die Entscheidungen sein mögen, denen Sie gegenüberstehen.“

„Ich liebe dich. Ich bin, wer ich bin, wegen dir. Sie sind jeder Grund, jede Hoffnung und jeder Traum, den ich jemals hatte, und egal, was uns in Zukunft widerfährt, jeder Tag, an dem wir zusammen sind, ist der größte Tag meines Lebens. Ich werde für immer Dein sein.“

„Und als ihre Lippen meine trafen, wusste ich, dass ich hundert Jahre alt werden und jedes Land der Welt besuchen könnte, aber nichts würde jemals mit dem einen Moment vergleichbar sein, in dem ich das Mädchen meiner Träume zum ersten Mal küsste und wusste, dass meine Liebe dauern würde für immer.“

„Erstens muss man etwas lieben, um es zu hassen.“

„Jede große Liebe beginnt mit einer großen Geschichte ...“

„Wenn du dich das erste Mal verliebst, dann verändert es dein Leben für immer, und wie sehr du dich auch bemühst, das Gefühl geht nie vorbei.“

„Du bist die Antwort auf jedes Gebet, das ich angeboten habe. Du bist ein Lied, ein Traum, ein Flüstern, und ich weiß nicht, wie ich so lange ohne dich leben konnte.“

„Du bist mein bester Freund und mein Geliebter, und ich weiß nicht, welche Seite von dir mir am besten gefällt. Ich schätze jede Seite, so wie ich unser gemeinsames Leben geschätzt habe.“

„I understand, Ira.“

„Sie entsann sich, wie sie an einem heißen Julitag unter dem Baum gesessen hatte an der Seite von jemandem, der sie mit solchem Verlangen angesehen hatte, daß nichts sonst Bedeutung hatte. Und in jenem Augenblick hatte sie sich zum ersten Mal verliebt.“

„Gedichte wurden nicht geschrieben, um analysiert zu werden. Sie sollten nicht den Verstand, sondern die Gefühle ansprechen, sollten inspirieren und anrühren.“

„Die Liebe sagte über diejenigen, die liebten, viel mehr aus als über die, die geliebt wurden.“

„Liebe bedeutet, dass das Glück des anderen wichtiger ist als das eigene Glück, gleichgültig, wie schmerzlich die Entscheidungen sind, die man treffen muss.“

„Liebe ist das wichtigste Gefühl. Ohne Liebe sind wir gar nichts.“

„Wenn ich schlafe, träume ich von dir und wenn ich aufwache, sehne ich mich danach, dich in meinen Armen zu halten. Wenn überhaupt, hat unsere Auszeit mich nur sicherer gemacht, dass ich meine Nächte an deiner Seite verbringen möchte und meine Tage mit deinem Herzen.“

„Du bist und immer warst mein Traum.“

„Sie haben immer eine Wahl. Es ist nur so, dass manche Leute die falsche machen.“

„Ohne Leiden gäbe es kein Mitleid.“

„Wenn Sie mit etwas zu kämpfen haben, schauen Sie sich alle Menschen um Sie herum an und stellen Sie fest, dass jede einzelne Person, die Sie sehen, mit etwas zu kämpfen hat.“

“I lead a simple life now, I am foolish, an old man in love, a dreamer who dreams of nothing but reading to Allie and holding her whenever I can. I am a sinner with many faults and a man who believes in magic, but I am too old to change and too old to care.”

“Standing next to Micah, I realized that there were times when we talked not because we needed to communicate anything important, but simply because we each drew comfort from the other's voice.”

“I was not meant to be alone. I am not good at it. The years since Ruth's passing have ticked by with the kind of desparate silence known only to the elderly. It is a silence underscored by loneliness and the knowledge that the good years are already in the past, coupled with the complications of old age itself.
The body is not meant to survive nearly a century. I speak from experience when I say this…”

“I'm of the opinion that anyone--even strangers--can sense the urgency of a request, and most people will usually do the right thing. … But when that didn't work, I offered to pay them.”

“I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?”

“Like I said, you're in this together. Men have certain needs, women have different needs; that's the way it was hundreds of years ago, and that's the way it's going to be hundreds of years from now. If you both realize that, and you both work on meeting each other's needs, you'll have a good marriage. And part of that, for both of you, is trust. In the end, it's that simple.”

“No, there's no experience quite like having children, and despite the challenges we once faced, I've considered myself blessed because of the family we created.”

“A truth emerges in any long marriage, and the truth is this: Our spouses sometimes know us better than we even know ourselves.”

“I've come to believe that children live for the satisfaction of surprising their parents…”

“She didn't hide what she was thinking, she didn't try to impress him, nor was she swayed by anything he'd accomplished in the past. Instead she seemed to evaluate him as he was today, right now, without holding either the past or the future against him.”

“…The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over. Those two elements always go together. … The best we can hope for in life is that it doesn't happen for a long, long time.”

“Mitch…was the kind of man who added something to everything he touched and everyone he came in contact with. I was envious of his view on life. He saw it all as a big game, where the only way to win was to be good to other people, to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and like what you see.”

“My point is simply that kids turn out okay as long as the parents are involved, no matter where they live. It's not like small towns have a monopoly on values. I mean, I'm sure if I did some digging, I'd find lots of kids that were in trouble here, too. Kids are kids, no matter where they live.”

“I can no more give Jamie away than I can give away my heart. But what I can do is let another share in the joy that she has always given me.”

“…when two people live together, the stress flows both ways. This, I come to believe, is both the blessing and the curse of marriage. It's a blessing because there's an outlet for the everyday strains of life; it's a curse because the outlet is someone you care deeply about.”

“…There is a greater purpose to all this. It is your destiny.”

“Well, then I'd say it takes two to tango. My guess is that both of you are right and both of you are wrong. That's the way most arguments go, anyway. People are who they are and no one is perfect, but marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll alway figure out a way to get through it.”

“It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. She knew Tuck understood that more than anyone.”

“Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards…and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.”

“You are a smart man, Ira, but sometimes I think you do not understand women very well.”

“…he realized that the same thing that made women initially attractive to him--their need to be taken care of--was the very thing that eventually signaled he end of the relationship. How did that old saying go? If you've been divorced once, you might be right in thinking your ex was the problem. If you've been divorced three times? Well, folks, the problem is most definitely you. Granted, he hadn't been divorced, but the point was well taken.”

“…feeling her helplessness. There was nothing worse. Most people lived under the illusion that they were in control of their lives, but that wasn't completely true. Yeah, you could decide what to have for breakfast and what to wear and all those little things, but as soon as you stepped out into the world, you were pretty much at the mercy of everyone else around you, and all you could do was hope that if they were having a bad day, they wouldn't decide to take it out on you.”

“…there is the fact that having a child transforms the basic marriage relationship. No longer are you simply husband and wife, you are mother and father as well, and all spontaneity vanishes immediately.”

“So many people these days, it seemed, believed that these things (personal fulfillment and self-esteem) could come only from work, not from parenting, and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.”

“…once she becomes a teenager…well, sometimes there's nothing you can do. With or without you, in the end, children grow up to become the people they were meant to be.”

“You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be. I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just…ordinary.”

“Even now, not a day goes by when I don't wish I could turn back the clock and change what happened.”

“"… good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it."
"Because they're passionate about their subjects."”

“It went without saying that he felt guilty about what had happened, but married friends had assured him that guilt was the cornerstone of any good marriage. It meant that a conscience was at work, values were held in high esteem, and reasons to feel guilty were best avoided whenever possible.”