“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
More from Gabriel García Márquez on Love
“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.”
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
“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“From the moment I saw her I knew this onewas worththebroken heart.”
Pablo Neruda
19 quotes“I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Leo Buscaglia
17 quotes“Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
Khalil Gibran
16 quotes“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
Lord Byron
16 quotes“Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.”
Mother Teresa
15 quotes“Let us all smile at each other for a smile is the beginning of love.”
Nicholas Sparks
15 quotes“And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it.”
Rumi
14 quotes“Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
John Donne
14 quotes“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
Shakespeare
14 quotes“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
Balzac
13 quotes“Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.”
Marianne Williamson
12 quotes“Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.”