One could be happy not only without love, but despite it. - Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
"One could be happy not only without love, but despite it."
"One could be happy not only without love, but despite it."
"One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature."
"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."
"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."
"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, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you"
"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 and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself."