"[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.”

“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”

“Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.”

“If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.”

“The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.”

“I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.”

“How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?”

“Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.”