Gabriel García Márquez: Quotes about love

Gabriel García Márquez was Colombian writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez

[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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

Gabriel García Márquez

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Only God knows how much I love you.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

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

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera