Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else’s.”

— Richard Paul Evans

202. “Knowing your self-worth isn’t something others can validate. You either believe it or you don’t.”

— Richard Paul Evans

203. “Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough?”

— Richard Paul Evans

204. “What the masses don’t realize is that they’re looking for a shepherd. Those who don’t think they can be influenced or call themselves ‘independent thinkers’ are usually the biggest conformists of all – and the easiest to turn. Why do you think cults prey on college students? Easy picking.”

— Richard Paul Evans

205. “Growing up means putting aside our egocentricity for truth.”

— Richard Paul Evans

206. “Forgiveness is the key to the heart’s shackles.”

— Richard Paul Evans

207. “All around the lobby were flickering red candles, and the room was filled with a pleasant scent of cinnamon, clove, and pine.”

— Richard Paul Evans

208. “I’ve come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”

— Richard Paul Evans

209. “Kids don’t come with owner’s manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they’re gone.”

— Richard Paul Evans

210. “Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”

— Richard Paul Evans

211. “There can be no joy without gratitude.”

— Richard Paul Evans

212. “Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.”

— Richard Paul Evans

213. “There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.”

— Richard Paul Evans

214. “Grief isn’t a luxury; it’s an appropriate response to loss. You don’t just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn’t exist, it only gets worse.”

— Richard Paul Evans

215. “Elgen can twist the truth all they want, but they can’t change.”

— Richard Paul Evans

216. “To truly live is more than taking the next breath – it’s to hope and dream and love.”

— Richard Paul Evans

217. “Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won’t – oppose the popular voice.”

— Richard Paul Evans

218. “I loved you, Jim. I loved you with all my heart. And you left me. You left me when I needed you the most. It’s too late, it’s too late. You can’t come back.”

— Richard Paul Evans

219. “I believe that love is the choice we make to raise ourselves and others to the highest planes of existence.”

— Richard Paul Evans

220. “Sometimes, it’s only in walking the path that we discover why we are walking at all.”

— Richard Paul Evans

221. “When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.”

— Richard Paul Evans

222. “I may be wrong, but it seems that there may be some unraveling of the American tapestry. I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality. I don’t see this as a good thing”.”

— Richard Paul Evans

223. “It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that’s why it’s been such a long time since I’ve been really happy.”

— Richard Paul Evans

224. “The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it’s not.”

— Richard Paul Evans

225. “Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves?”

— Richard Paul Evans

226. “Unfortunately, large cities don’t have a monopoly on loneliness. It can be found in small towns as well. Loneliness can be found everywhere there are people.”

— Richard Paul Evans

227. “We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they’re gone.”

— Richard Paul Evans

228. “It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.”

— Richard Paul Evans

229. “There is not only more to each soul’s journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.”

— Richard Paul Evans

230. “Taylor, McKenna, Abigail, and Taylor simultaneously crouched over in pain.”

— Richard Paul Evans

231. “The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.”

— Richard Paul Evans

232. “Maybe, if we just accepted our deaths, we might finally start to live.”

— Richard Paul Evans

233. “Some people aren’t meant to fight. They’re meant to pick up the pieces.”

— Richard Paul Evans

234. “Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.”

— Richard Paul Evans

235. “Jade Dragon will go.”

— Richard Paul Evans

236. “I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as “the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you’d look forward to the trip.”

— Richard Paul Evans

237. “I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.”

— Richard Paul Evans

238. “All women like chocolate, it’s like female catnip.”

— Richard Paul Evans

239. “As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.”

— Richard Paul Evans

240. “Deep in our hearts everyone walks free.”

— Richard Paul Evans

241. “It was the first time that I had ever been romantically kissed. It was even better than the chocolate cake.”

— Richard Paul Evans

242. “Their relationship was as one-sided as a pizza.”

— Richard Paul Evans

243. “The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.”

— Richard Paul Evans

244. “Trauma has a way of indelibly linking the incidentals to the profound.”

— Richard Paul Evans

245. “The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it’s kind of the same as being president of the United States – it’s not gonna happen.”

— Richard Paul Evans

246. “The sum of the day was truly greater than its parts.”

— Richard Paul Evans

247. “I once heard a writer say, ‘It’s easy to write a novel, you just slit your wrist and let it bleed on the pages.’ She was right... Sophocles and Freud believed that we are defined by our fears. There’s a lot of truth to that. When you share your greatest fears, your vulnerability, we bond in that honesty. We connect with each other and we don’t feel so alone. And that’s what books are really about. Connecting.”

— Richard Paul Evans

248. “It’s easy to hate the game when your losing.”

— Richard Paul Evans

249. “Michael, I think we need to break up.” If.”

— Richard Paul Evans

250. “It was like hearing my mother was in a book club with Hitler.”

— Richard Paul Evans