“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
More from Gabriel García Márquez on Love
“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”
“Hate and love are reciprocal passions.”
“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”
“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
“There is always something left to love.”
“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.”
“four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.”
Others on Love
Atticus Poetry
20 quotes“I’ll let you into my heart but wipe your feet at the door.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“You are like nobody since I love you.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to lov...”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“I have not loved the world nor the world me I have not flatter'd its rank breath nor bow'd To its idolatries a patien...”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“When you judge someone you have no time to love them.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.”
John Donne
14 quotes“If ever any beauty I did see,Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.”
Rumi
14 quotes“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension...”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine.”
Balzac
13 quotes“The more a man judges, the less he loves”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
12 quotes“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.”