Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

Do not allow me to forget you

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

There is always something left to love.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

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

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.

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

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

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.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Shame has poor memory.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

You can't come in, colonel, " she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.

A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.

our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good