Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.