212 quotes found
“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.”
“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”
“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in ...”
“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”
“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from ...”
“You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio”
“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
“Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiempo, volviéndose recuerdos, brumas de otra época...”
“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”
“The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.”
“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
“One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.”
