Top 120 Sarah Noffke Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Travel makes existentialists of us all.”

— Sarah Noffke

52. “I know how it fees to plead. I know how it feels to wish someone would give you a chance to help them.”

— Sarah Noffke

53. “Rarely does the truth set us free. Usually it chains us to the earth like a ghost.”

— Sarah Noffke

54. “Those who see the fire run. The rest die from smoke.”

— Sarah Noffke

55. “I’m a heartless optimist. This combination could make me lethal, but mostly it has led to a successful hermit lifestyle.”

— Sarah Noffke

56. “Depends on one’s perspective whether my current state of affairs is considered hilarious. A stranger peering into my life would probably find it quite comical. I think it’s tragically humiliating, to say the very least.”

— Sarah Noffke

57. “I’m not in a position where I can blindly allow myself to be manipulated. I’m a robot who has awoken to the realization that I’ve been damaged so I can’t perform, so I can’t take my rightful place within this society. And I don’t want to be damaged anymore.”

— Sarah Noffke

58. “The flaw is you thinking that you’re repressed. Those with that mentality will always find an oppressor.”

— Sarah Noffke

59. “To delude ourselves into believing we are perfect or that perfection exists at any level is an injustice to who we really are.”

— Sarah Noffke

60. “Sometimes you don’t get to be who you are.”

— Sarah Noffke

61. “Books are full of words and they are the most influential tools in the world. These seemingly innocent things strung together by letters have the power to ignite ideas, to spark a dying motivation, to fuel a passion.”

— Sarah Noffke

62. “The audience was ecstatic, leaving the big top with smiles that wouldn’t fade for hours. They had seen what they thought were tricks, not realizing everything about this circus was real.”

— Sarah Noffke

63. “My dark secret is I’ve always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It’s a difficult thing to do.”

— Sarah Noffke

64. “I only ever save you because I can’t live without you. My reasons are purely selfish.”

— Sarah Noffke

65. “When a heart breaks a substance spills out like cement and pours through the bloodstream, hardening everything. In time, I know my heart will mend and the rock inside will crack and crumble away. But for now I’m as solid as a column. And alone I stand.”

— Sarah Noffke

66. “At the end of the day, everything and everyone can be stolen from us. But not our integrity.”

— Sarah Noffke

67. “What’s the point in having one another if we’re just going to allow each other to die when the time comes?”

— Sarah Noffke

68. “Too often my sister talks like this. She doesn’t speak like she’s wise for her age, she speaks wise for any age.”

— Sarah Noffke

69. “Second chances don’t ever, ever come along. You go and seize them.”

— Sarah Noffke

70. “The big top deflating symbolized death. The end of another round of shows. The last part of the life of this big top. The same big top would be reborn in another city. It would rise into the air, like the phoenix, but it would never be like this tent, with its backdrop and its smells and its winds.”

— Sarah Noffke

71. “Building a happy life usually takes constant renovations.”

— Sarah Noffke

72. “Today we remember the man who brought magic back to this world by lighting a spark in all of you. You are all his legacy. You are the magic of Vagabond Circus.”

— Sarah Noffke

73. “Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. I’ve always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now I’m attracted to his pain. It makes him human. It makes him real. It makes him something he hardly ever is to me: accessible.”

— Sarah Noffke

74. “Everyone treats you extra nice when they think you’re about to die.”

— Sarah Noffke

75. “I don’t run from these worries though. I invite each one into my heart and mind. At the doorstep of my emotional threshold I greet them like a perfect host. Each worry tracks mud into my home and dirties the furniture. I grit and bear my houseguests. Their time with me will be short-lived.”

— Sarah Noffke

76. “What I want and what I have to do are incongruent.”

— Sarah Noffke

77. “There will never be another Ren Lewis. And that’s why God gave you such impossible talents. Because you were meant to do things humans shouldn’t. That is your talent and your curse.”

— Sarah Noffke

78. “It’s hard to know someone so well and then meet them for the first time in their new life.”

— Sarah Noffke

79. “I’m fairly certain God takes notes out of my book. He should. If he knows what’s good for him.”

— Sarah Noffke

80. “People who make mistakes are in the best position to make better choices.”

— Sarah Noffke

81. “One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library.”

— Sarah Noffke

82. “I wouldn’t know what normal people do,” she said, and curled her head down until it was resting on his chest, his heartbeat music to her ears.”

— Sarah Noffke

83. “He never had anything for all of his life, and regarded being rich as akin to living full time on the moon, but suddenly he felt as though he was the wealthiest man on Earth.”

— Sarah Noffke

84. “No one’s life weighs more than another.”

— Sarah Noffke

85. “And suddenly regret is a capsule in my heart. One that just bursts open.”

— Sarah Noffke

86. “Even when I don’t know the people, I still find their faults. Or invent them.”

— Sarah Noffke

87. “A show at the circus was an organic being. It was created by real ingredients, real people. It sometimes evolved and sometimes regressed. It lived and it died. Each show, each day, was alive for a brief period of time, like a human. And then as the audience exited the big top the beating heart of that show slowed until it was no more.”

— Sarah Noffke

88. “The Vagabond Circus was different than all the rest in many ways and the first was it had no clowns. Not a single red, round nose in the whole troupe. Maybe that was the reason that Dave had decided he’d be the silliest ringmaster in all of history. His job was to lead and move the events of the show along but he was less a Master of Ceremony and more a buffer between the jaw dropping acts.”

— Sarah Noffke

89. “You know, sometimes even when two people love each other the universe still conspires against them, forces them apart.”

— Sarah Noffke

90. “There is no point telling anyone anything until they can see it for themselves.”

— Sarah Noffke

91. “Is this what normal people do?” he asked. “Do they wake up every day next to someone they love and receive affection?”

— Sarah Noffke

92. “Don’t make loss in your life make you a loser.”

— Sarah Noffke

93. “I ask God all sorts of questions, but only science ever answers back.”

— Sarah Noffke

94. “The fastest way to heal is to bypass the drama and head straight for the solution.”

— Sarah Noffke

95. “We are humans who make wrong decisions, who act in strange ways, who have freckles and ailments. We are humans who are incredible in both our capacity to love and our resistance to hate. And in our imperfections we are beautiful.”

— Sarah Noffke

96. “He makes me perfect and so very flawed in my love. Makes me realize all the ways I could love him better, but in this moment we are perfect. Reunited. Happy in each other’s arms. Accepting of each other’s stupid decisions.”

— Sarah Noffke

97. “Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.”

— Sarah Noffke

98. “Self-love is something that affects all relationships. You see, we can’t love another until we love ourselves. When we have a good relationship with ourselves then we are ideally in a position to –.”

— Sarah Noffke

99. “It’s just like riding a bicycle. If you fall off, it hurts like hell.”

— Sarah Noffke

100. “When I was born God made an awful error. He allowed me to live.”

— Sarah Noffke