Cholera Quotes:

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Curiosity, Mask, Cholera

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Cholera, Abyss, Felt, Disenchantment

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Love in the Time of Cholera".

topic: Age, Innocence, Cholera

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: World, Sake, Cholera

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Romantic, Mask, Cholera

My cholera's acting up again.

- Libba Bray

source: Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

topic: Acting, Cholera

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

- Paul Farmer

source: "Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti". Interview with Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 29, 2011.

topic: Challenges, Looks, Haiti, Tuberculosis, Cholera

May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.

- Giacomo Meyerbeer

source: Giacomo Meyerbeer, Robert Ignatius Letellier (1999). “The Diaries of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The years of celebrity, 1850-1856”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

topic: New Year, Years, Heaven, Peace And Unity, Cholera

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

- Buffalo Bill

topic: Men, Broken, Dying, Cholera

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. 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. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Sep 15, 2014

topic: Love, Mean, Reality, Passage Of Time, Cholera

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Book, Fire, Rereading, Cholera, Book Love

People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Love, Men, Intelligent, Cholera

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.

- Paul Farmer

topic: Country, Done, Haiti, Canaries, Cholera

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

- Camille Claudel

topic: Art, Men, Facts, Benevolent, Sahara

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of a -- visiting card. If there's any complaint you want to make a special study of, just you come to me, sir, and see what I can do for you. It's not every one that can say that he has had cholera three times, and cured himself by living on red pepper and brandy."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

source: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4140, Delphi Classics

topic: Humorous, Sarcasm, Museums, Cholera

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

- Peter Agre

topic: School, Epidemics, Asia, South Asia, Medical Education

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.'

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Writing, Thinking, Years, Cholera, Writing Love

There is always something left to love.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Love, Romantic, I Hate You, Raisins, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Love, Life, Beautiful, Braids, Cholera

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

topic: Sad, Stay Strong, Tears, Make You Cry, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Romantic, Regret, Dying, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time.

- Javier Bardem

source: "Fictional character: Florentino Ariza". "Love in the Time of Cholera", www.imdb.com. 2007.

topic: Reality, Essence, Age, Passage Of Time, Cholera

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Inspiring, Memories, Heart, Best Memories, One Hundred Years Of Solitude

This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

- Emanuel Azenberg

topic: Heart, Common, Cold, Cholera, Common Cold

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Romantic, Glory, Cholera

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.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Romantic, Mean, Thinking, Cholera, Alphas

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

topic: Important, Literature, Remember, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Life, Wisdom, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Magical realism ... and fakery" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

topic: Life, What Matters, Inspire, Cholera

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

topic: Sex, Wall, Women, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Great Sex

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.626, Penguin UK

topic: Love, Inspirational, Romantic, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 31, 2014

topic: Lying, Doubt, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

topic: Grateful, Adversity, Hatred, Incomprehension, Nastiness

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.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Heart, People, Sorrow, Piers, Cholera

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Money, Men, Literature, Cholera, Rich Man

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Army, Humanity, Fields, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

topic: Marriage, Wedding, Morning, Marriage Advice, Great Marriage

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.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Love And Family, Cholera

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Fathers Day, Dad, Men, Inspirational Father, Daughter To Father

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

topic: Love, Opportunity, Half, Everlasting Love, Cholera

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.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Dream, Thinking, Years, Cholera

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Grief, Grateful, Eye, How Much I Love You, Only God Knows

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.theguardian.com. 1985.

topic: Food, Eggplant, Promise, Cholera

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Boredom, Overcoming, Married, Married Life, Cholera

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.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1273, Penguin UK

topic: Pain, Men, Helping, Cholera

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Suffering, Lasts, Advantage, Cholera

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Acceptance, Doors, Calm, One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Cholera

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

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

source: Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Living to Tell the Tale”, p.455, Penguin UK

topic: Unrequited Love, Fate, Almonds, Cholera

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Couple, Passion, Heart, Cavalry, Conjugal

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

topic: Lust, World, Unusual, Cholera

These are the three main diseases of this country, sir: typhoid, cholera, and election fever. This last one is the worst; it makes people talk and talk about things that they have no say in ... Would they do it this time? Would they beat the Great Socialist and win the elections? Had they raised enough money of their own, and bribed enough policemen, and bought enough fingerprints of their own, to win? Like eunuchs discussing the Kama Sutra, the voters discuss the elections in Laxmangarh.

- Aravind Adiga

topic: Country, Winning, People, Typhoid, Cholera