Top 250 Richard Paul Evans Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “People talk of life’s storms as if they are universal experiences. But they’re not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

206. “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

207. “The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else’s.”

— Richard Paul Evans

208. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

210. “People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.”

— Richard Paul Evans

211. “I’ve always believed that we don’t choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves.” “Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn’t the world punish us enough?” “Why wouldn’t we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It’s cause and effect.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

215. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

217. “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

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. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

222. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

225. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

231. “Jade Dragon will go.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

233. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

244. “It’s been said that every new beginning in some other beginning’s end.”

— Richard Paul Evans

245. “It seems that the most significant events in our lives happen while we’re worried about something else happening.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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

— Richard Paul Evans

247. “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

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

— Richard Paul Evans

249. “Romance novels are all about desire and happily-ever-after, but happily-ever-after doesn’t come from desire – at least not the kind portrayed in pulp romances. Real love is not to desire a person but to desire their happiness – sometimes even at the expense of our own happiness. Real love is to expand our own capacity for tolerance and caring, to actively seek another’s well-being. All else is simply a charade of self-interest.”

— Richard Paul Evans

250. “Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.”

— Richard Paul Evans