"Love in the Time of Cholera" Quotes
A man waits over fifty years to declare his love for a woman, despite her marriage to someone else.
fiction | 368 pages | Published in 2014
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.
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.
He was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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.
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.
The scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.
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.
Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.
