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.“

“…The one thing you've got to remember is to see the big picture. When things get tough, remind yourself why you fell in love with her in the first place. She's a special woman, and you were lucky to find her, just as she was lucky to find you. She's got a heart of gold, and you can't fake something like that.”

“My plea to you is this: despite your sadness, do not forget how happy you have made me; do not forget that I loved a man who loved me in return, and this was the greatest gift I could ever hope to receive.”

“…it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind…through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences:
A. It's your life + social commentary.
B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
C. No one ever said that life was fair.”

“My wife, I might add, is a saint.
Either that, or maybe she is insane.”

“And don't worry. From wherever I am, I'll watch out for you. I'll be your guardian angel, sweetheart. You can count on me to keep you safe.”

“…you have to give them both credit for being good parents simply because of the way their kids turned out. We're happily married, successful, ethical, and we remained close as siblings. If your kids can say the same thing later in life, won't you think you did a good job as a parent?”

“…(in the army) you're forced to learn the most important lesson in life, and that's the fact that you have to live up to your responsibilities, and you better do it right. When given an order, you can't say no. It's no exaggeration to say that lives are on the line. One wrong decision, and your buddy might die. It's this fact that makes the army work. That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day after day or how they can fight for something they may not believe in. Not everyone does. …but when all is said and done, we do what we do for one another. For friendship. Not for country, not for patriotism, not because we're programmed killing machines, but because of the guy next to you. You fight for your friend, to keep him alive, and he fights for you, and everything about the army is built on this simple premise.”

“In this world, after all, I've become more or less invisible…I've become what the young are afraid of becoming, just another member of the nameless elderly, an old and broken man with nothing left to offer to this world.
My days are inconsequential, comprising simple moments and even simpler pleasures. I eat and sleep and think of Ruth; I wander the house and stare the the paintings, and in the mornings, I feed the pigeons that gather in my backyard.”

“…there'd also been an unvarnished honestly in what they'd said. There were no hidden meanings, no secret attempts to pass judgment; as quickly as their disagreements had flared up, they'd pass.”

“No," his father replied, "you ran for you. I just hope you're running toward something, not away from something.”

“I've come to understand that arguing with her about it has never solved anything. So instead of denying it, I've learned to take her hands, look her in the eyes, and respond with those three magic words that every woman wants to hear:
"You're right, sweetheart."”

“The words nearly break my heart, and I feel something crumble inside me. The truth is often a terrible thing, and I wish again that I were someone else. But it is too late now, too late to change anything. I am old and alone and I'm dying a little more with each passing hour. I'm tired, more tired than I've ever been.”

“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could. At the deepest level, he'd come to understand that life could end at any moment, and it was better to be happy than busy.”

“In other words, when the going get tough, the tough get going.”

“She'd always believed that people come in two varieties: those who look out the windshield and those who stare in the rearview mirror. She'd always been the windshield type: Gotta focus on the future, not the past, because that's the only part that's still up for grabs.”

“I can't make this decision for you, Allie, this one's all yours. I want you to know, though, that I love you. And I always will. I know that doesn't help, but it's all I can do.”

“These days, it seemed that the only thing he was certain about was the knowledge that he wouldn't trade his years with Gabby for anything. Without her, his life had little meaning. He was a small-town husband with a small-town occupation and his cares were no different from anyone else's. He'd been neither a leader nor a follower, nor had he been someone who would be remembered long after he passed away. He was the most ordinary of men with only one exception: He'd fallen in love with a woman named Gabby, his love deepening in the years they'd been married. But fate had conspired to ruin all that, and now he spent long periods of his days wondering whether it was humanly possible to fix things between them.”

“That was one of the great things about being single: A person could pretty much do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and introspection was only an option.”

“Relationships are the most important thing in life, and friends are part of that.”

“"… the secret of a long lasting marriage is…… communication. When we talk about issues and really open up to each other, things are great between us. When we keep things to ourselves, grudges and resentments build up and we end up arguing." …"What good is talking if neither of you are really committed?… marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong. You have to know what your spouse needs from you, and then you do it. And you avoid doing the things that harm the relationship. If your spouse acts the same way, your marriage can make it through anything."”

“"I know we've had our differences, Allie, and that we haven't seen eye to eye on everything. I'm not perfect, but I did the best I could with raising you. I'm your mother and I always will be. That means I'll always love you."
Allie was silent for a moment, then: "What should I do?"
"I don't know, Allie. That's up to you. But I would think about it. Think about what you really want."”

“"Denial is an ugly thing, Nicky." "I'm not in denial.""See what I mean? That's denial."”

“…the grass isn't always greener on the other side. What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greener where it's watered, which meant that both Frank and Amanda had to get out their hoses if they wanted to make things better.”

“Life was about spending time together, about having the time to walk together holding hands, talking quietly as they watched the sun go down. It wasn't glamorous, but it was, in many ways, the best that life had to offer. Wasn't that how the old saying went? Who, on their deathbed, ever said they wished they had worked harder? Or spent less time enjoying a quiet afternoon? Or spent less time with their family?”

“Dying is a strange business, and I'm not going to bore you with the details. I might have weeks or I might have months and though it's a cliche, it's true that so many of the things I once believed to be important no longer are. …I find myself reflecting on the essential moments of my life.”

“He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him, the self he would always long to know.”

“…even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me.”

“We'd been raised to survive, to meet challenges, and to chase our dreams. … And we don't only love each other, but like each other as well.”

“…He was with the woman and daughters he loved, and who could ever need or want anything more than that?…It was just a normal day, a day like any other. But most of all, it was a day in which everything was exactly the way it should be.”