Cholera Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms…

— Gabriel Garcia Márquez

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with…

— Harry Crews

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered.

— Tim O'Brien

But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his…

— Milan Kundera

“Somewhere there was a book of love, with all the symptoms written down in red ink: Dizziness and Desire. A tendency to stare at…

— Alice Hoffman

In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love,…

— Leo Tolstoy

He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He felt as if he were under an intolerable physical strain, as if his body were likely at any moment to fly to pieces.…

— Iris Murdoch

He wondered if he might be in love, but realized it was far more likely he was dying.

— Herbie Brennan

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“Flesh, bodies, nerves, legs… things were getting all mixed up in his mind. It seemed to be filled with flesh, cloyed with the sweetish…

— Humphrey Cobb