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Top 20 William Nicholson Quotes (2025 Update)

William Nicholson Quote: “We read to know we're not alone.”

1. “We read to know we're not alone.”

— William Nicholson

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William Nicholson Quote: “I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.”

2. “I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn’t change God- it changes me.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”

3. “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “To put it another way, pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.”

4. “To put it another way, pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.”

5. “Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. – Manth Vow.”

6. “Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. – Manth Vow.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.”

7. “God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”

8. “I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.”

9. “There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.”

10. “My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.”

11. “He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn’t necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don’t start off being all that lovable, if we’re honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn’t it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”

12. “Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn’t necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don’t start off being all that lovable, if we’re honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn’t it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.”

13. “A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.”

14. “Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don’t merit being treated seriously and with compassion.”

15. “There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don’t merit being treated seriously and with compassion.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “We are the slaves of slaves.”

16. “We are the slaves of slaves.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.”

17. “When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.”

18. “All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Use your power gently.”

19. “Use your power gently.”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “Why should I be honored? Don’t I have enough attention, comfort and power already?”

20. “Why should I be honored? Don’t I have enough attention, comfort and power already?”

— William Nicholson

William Nicholson Quote: “The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.”

21. “The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.”

— William Nicholson

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