Top 120 Sarah Noffke Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Nothing lasts forever. Everything is fleeting. And yet, that’s the very reason that life has meaning. When things cost effort to gain and are finite they are of value.”

— Sarah Noffke

2. “Sometimes you can’t tell people things because you know they won’t hear you.”

— Sarah Noffke

3. “Life is full of magic and if you try and explain it all then you lose the opportunity for bewilderment, which is a beautiful thing – Dr. Dave Raydon.”

— Sarah Noffke

4. “There’s no reason anyone should ever feel lonely when there’s love everywhere. There’s no excuse for talented people to trudge through life. And if we weigh down our children, the very source that makes the stars blaze in the sky, then we may wake to realize we’ve lost something irretrievable.”

— Sarah Noffke

5. “I think you’ve been hurt too much from an early age. You were trying to fix the world that broke you. When that didn’t work you pretended you weren’t broken. But you don’t have to pretend with me, because no matter what you do I’ll always accept you.”

— Sarah Noffke

6. “His warmth fills the space between my heartbeats. I don’t know what it is about him, but he lures me in so effortlessly and tangles my heart in a net.”

— Sarah Noffke

7. “He’s my calm in commotion. He’s the rebel smiling when the danger mounts. He’s the guy daring to joke in the face of death.”

— Sarah Noffke

8. “Taking a risk to survive isn’t that impressive. Taking a risk to be happy, that takes guts.”

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9. “Sometimes the best thing about us isn’t what we’re gifted with, but what we can make others feel just by our very nature of existing.”

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10. “I know who he is and just what he’s capable of,” I say, seeing his piercing stare in my mind’s eye. “But the way others treat me doesn’t dictate the way I treat them.”

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11. “His eyes have the wrong effect on me. They grind me to a powder and his smile is the breath that sends me in all directions.”

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12. “He was a tornado, changing every second, beautiful and dangerous and unpredictable. But she loved storms. Always had.”

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13. “And his voice fell away, like it was sucked up by the night, his eyes emptied like the stars had robbed him of his soul.”

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14. “Love, deep and pure, it opens my heart. It feels like a magical force, one I’d fight to protect, one I’d die to keep.”

— Sarah Noffke

15. “Love is really the most beautiful show. It can’t rehearsed. It can’t be planned. It is the product of magic. It is what Vagabond Circus is all about.”

— Sarah Noffke

16. “Fate has a way of finding us even when we hide.”

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17. “My heart is kerosene, my mind a match. I’m seconds away from igniting.”

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18. “You don’t want to wake up and realize you could have been happy, that the risks would have been worth it, but you dwindled away your chances.”

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19. “And although she wasn’t a girl of faith, she somehow always knew if one thing prevented her from doing something it was because something better was in store for her. She trusted life.”

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20. “You’re the empire I’d protect. You’re my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You’re my freedom.”

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21. “I can’t tell you how many times you’ve given my life meaning because the occasions have been too numerous.”

— Sarah Noffke

22. “Who are we when we don’t allow flaws in our existence, but people of denial? To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are.”

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23. “Love isn’t governed by logic or understanding. You don’t enter into it like an agreement. It crashes down on you. You wake up one morning and realize the reason you can’t take your eyes off someone is because you’re in love with them.”

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24. “Unconditional love is something people achieve once they’ve given themselves over completely to someone. Once they’ve decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.”

— Sarah Noffke

25. “He had felt their connection like one does a diamond and knows it’s real and unbreakable.”

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26. “She felt like she’d looked through a window and knew what happiness looked like. It was pure and unadulterated and just on the other side of a distant ridge through a murky window. And still she was closer to happiness than she’d ever been.”

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27. “I backspaced. Tried a different ending for that chapter. Took a walk. Had a drink. Took another walk. Had another drink. Yes, I get that walking won’t solve my problems. That’s why I drink.”

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28. “The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.”

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29. “If my time loving you has taught me anything, it’s that love grows with every returned smile, every second of communal silence and every word exchanged. Unconditional love is built and when it’s finished nothing destroys it.”

— Sarah Noffke

30. “Denial has rented a room in my head and frequently stomps around slamming doors.”

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31. “I don’t want to know the answer, but I can’t live without the truth.”

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32. “You know, most wake up constructing their world from what they experienced the day before. When we look out expecting what we’ve always gotten, then that’s exactly what we get. But if we want something new, then we have to regard life with fresh eyes, ears and a mind open to possibilities.”

— Sarah Noffke

33. “I hope so too, and that is one of the most powerful ways to get anywhere. Hope.”

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34. “Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.”

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35. “I didn’t sell my soul to the devil or dance with her on a clear night. I ran up to the devil and I stole the mask she wore and I’ve worn it comfortably for quite some time.”

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36. “I owe you my life,” he told her simply. She shook her head. “No, you owe me nothing. Friends save each other. I only did the same thing you’d do for me.”

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37. “No one ever told me how sorrow traumatizes your heart, making you think it will never beat exactly the same way again. No one ever told me how grief feels like a wet sock in my mouth. One I’m forced to breathe through, thinking that with each breath I’ll come up short and suffocate.”

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38. “Sometimes not punishing your enemy is the best strategy. What they will do to themselves, after experiencing your mercy, is much more effective.”

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39. “There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.”

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40. “The belongings people accumulate throughout their lives will always own them. People seem to think if they had more they’d be happier or freer, but their possessions only chain them to the earth.”

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41. “Tears ache in my throat and each time his lips caress mine I’m closer to the dam within me bursting open. He’s undoing me, tearing out my demons with burning strokes of his lips and the salty taste of his mouth. In his arms, I’m changing, becoming anew.”

— Sarah Noffke

42. “Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. “Without change, we are dead,” he often said.”

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43. “People fight wars for power. But those who win are motivated by love. Never lose sight of that.”

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44. “Three things are forever consistent: the passing of time, the rotation of the Earth, and the ringmaster of Vagabond Circus.”

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45. “I can’t let you go. If you leave, I’m leaving too. If you stay, I will. Hell, if you march into your father’s house I’ll be right behind you, because I’m absolutely, terrifyingly in love with you.”

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46. “Blame is the dumbest thing a person can do. It always puts the control in someone else’s hands. I’m always responsible for what happens to me and therefore I can change it.”

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47. “The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.”

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48. “I’m an anchor and he is the sea and I sink into his tenderness as he presses my hand to his heart.”

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49. “Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.”

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50. “He’s incredibly perfect in his very nature of existing. He’s perfect in his uniqueness. He burns so bright. So bright at times he hurts my eyes. Makes my heart ache from his grace.”

— Sarah Noffke