Gabriel García Márquez: Quotes about love

Gabriel García Márquez was Colombian writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“It was a love of perpetual flight.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Variant: I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
fall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stop
falling in love.

“I'll never fall in love again… it's like having two souls at the same time.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“… The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores