Quotes from book
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez Original title El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Spanish, 1985)

Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. The novel was first published in Spanish in 1985. Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English-language movie adaptation was released in 2007.


Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo

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

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

Variant: It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo
Gabriel García Márquez photo

“Only God knows how much I love you.”

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez photo