Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...
Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.
The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.
...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams
Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,
I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.
Things have a life of their own, " the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
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.
Don't worry, " he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.
Remember that everything that is good, whatever it’s origin, comes from the holy spirit.
The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.
To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.
...as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father.
The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.
..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate, ..
During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.
If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
You can't eat hope, ' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you, ' the colonel replied.
Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.
When I wake up, " he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.
She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.
Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...
literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.
The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you, " he said. And erased him from his heart.
The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.
Men demand much more than you think, " she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich, ” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone, " she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.
I'll never fall in love again, " he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.
Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal.
Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?