Gabriel García Márquez: Quotes about love (page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“It was a love of perpetual flight.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“… 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

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

“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.”

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

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