Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s novel “Love in the Time of Cholera” was published in 1985.
The story unfolds in an undisclosed Caribbean port city in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and portrays the lives of Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza.
The novel, regarded one of Garcia Márquez’s classics, covers themes of love, aging, and the passage of time.
I have listed some of the best quotes from the novel Love in the Time of Cholera.
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Love in the Time of Cholera Quotes
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“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 (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“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 (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“He is ugly and sad… but he is all love.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
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Quotes from 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 (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“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.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Only God knows how much I love you.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
Famous Love in the Time of Cholera Quotes
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“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 (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 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 (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“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 Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
Great Love in the Time of Cholera Quotes
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
“I’ve remained a virgin for you.” ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera.
“There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.” ~ Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera).
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