212 quotes found
“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful a...”
“Do not allow me to forget you”
“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”
“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close t...”
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, m...”
“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”
“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”
“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.”
“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...”
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”
“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”
“Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una ald...”
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”
