G.s.gabriel Quotes

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon,Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns awayAll shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

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.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

This soup tastes like windows

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

I got quite good results from protein plates.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

Beauty like hers is genius.

Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.

You get what you pay for.

No one conquers who doesn't fight.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

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

Comedy is my passion. I'm going to do this until I drop.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

You can be sorry you aren't perfect, but never be sorry for being yourself.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

We normally consider stability to be the constant in life and accidents to be the exception, but it's exactly the opposite. In reality, the accident is the rule and stability is the exception.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

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

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

We've got to get in to get out.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Music is important for one's health.

Life is short and progress is slow

I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

From perfect grief there need not beWisdom or even memory;One thing then learned remains to me -The woodspurge has a cup of three.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

If I'm drinking I can either be the nicest guy ever or I'm the guy you should leave alone.