Gabriel García Márquez: Quotes about love

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.”

“There is always something left to love.”

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

“Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

“He is ugly and sad… but he is all love.”

“and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love…”

“Only God knows how much I love you.”

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”

“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.”

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”

“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”