Quotes on 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.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

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.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

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.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

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.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.