Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

How we need another soul to cling to.

Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

I think sadly that Morse thinks that he can exist on his own and he only realises at the end that he can't and never really has been able to. I feel sorry for him.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

I cannot live alone.

I have no agenda - just to be loved.

Why does she want me?" Coraline asked the cat. "Why does she want me to stay here with her?" "She wants something to love, I think," said the cat. "Something that isn't her. She might want something to eat as well. It's hard to tell with creatures like that.

Because I have been lonely, I value love.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

I watch the Discovery Channel, and you know what I've discovered? I need a girlfriend.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

To ask me whether I could endure to live without friends is absurd. It is easy enough to live out of material sight of friends, but to live without human love is impossible.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.