Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
...but in any case, he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched by hand.
The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
They scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets
It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical woman.
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.
He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door.
The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.
I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.
The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
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
They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.
...he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon
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 ...
But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. For
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so many lovers.
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.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.
Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine.
The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: I give you my life in this rose.
But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body.