The best Quotes by David Nicholls

I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love "Tender is the Night," and its atmosphere of doomed romance. He was one of the greatest prose stylists, with a wonderfully clear but lyrical quality.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.

Happiness

Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had, as sorrow for what we have lost.

Grief & Condolence

"I love you" is an interesting phrase, in that apparently small alterations–taking away the I, adding a word like lots or loads–render it meaningless.

Emotional intelligence, the perfect oxymoron!

From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost.

He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

One Day

Photography Wise Sayings

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

One Day

Secrets

"So - whatever happened to you?"
"Life. Life happened."

One Day

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.

One Day

Perfection

I think reality is overrated.

One Day

Reality

And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others.

One Day

Joy Positive Quotes

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

One Day

Breakup

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

One Day

Friendship

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

One Day

Envy Success

She was reaching the limits of how much it's possible to change a man.

One Day

"Live each day as if it's your last", that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Go out there with your passion and your electric typewriter and work hard at...something. Change lives through art maybe. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.

One Day

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

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What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us. Time and time over. They are to be happy in. Where can we live but days?

One Day - Season 1 Episode 1

Days

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

Emma in One Day

I love you Dex, I really do. I just don't like you anymore.

Emma in One Day

A tortilla is either corn or wheat. But a corn tortilla folded and filled is a taco, whereas a filled wheat tortilla is a burrito. Deep fry a burrito, it's a chimichanga. Toast a tortilla, it's a tostada. Roll it, it's an enchilada.

Emma in One Day

Mexico

Dexter: "What rhymes with Dexter?"
Emma: "Prick. It's a half-rhyme."

Emma in One Day

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby

Solitude & Loneliness

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

Jodi Picoult in My Sister's Keeper

Photography

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Eichenschild in The Hobbit

Greed Wise Sayings

I think sometimes we aren't keeping secrets to hide from other people. I think sometimes we're keeping them to protect those people.

Tony Padilla in 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 Episode 2

Secrets Protection

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Amy Bloom

Positive Quotes Perfection

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Itachi Uchiha in Naruto

Reality

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Carlos Santana

Health Joy

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Life Optimism Dancing Rain Positive Quotes

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

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