Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible ...

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to surv...

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

After dinner, at five o’clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each ...

He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to...

If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any g...

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or ...

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she w...

She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so muc...

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he s...

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. D...

The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina...

I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could ...

She clung to her husband. And it was just at the time when he needed her most, because he suffered t...

She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous...

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on...

She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she...

At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a ...

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

The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its cas...

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

Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love

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

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right t...

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

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

I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic...

She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, ...

I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am g...

Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, ...

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is t...

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

Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strang...

Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0)---...

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest o...

The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased h...

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our...

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do no...

Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in thi...

He always believed he loved his daughter, but the fear of rabies obliged the Marquis to admit to him...

Do not allow me to forget you

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

Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do...

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found l...

Josè Arcadio felt himself lifted up into the air toward a state of seraphic inspiration, where his h...

Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bi...

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano...

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

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a go...

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, t...

That would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each ...

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had eve...

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

There is always something left to love.

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

But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were m...

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

Children inherit their parents' madness.

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

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that...

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the card...

For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, ...

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

...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.

The uncertainty of the future made them turn their hearts toward the past. They saw themselves in th...

But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural de...

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a...

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a ...

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

She did not understand why women complicated their lives with corsets and petticoats, so she sewed h...

But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of ch...

Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of...

He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to ...

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they under...

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted awa...

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt...

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and...

our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old m...

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom h...

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

No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone," she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excell...

Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on t...

I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.

Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm v...

In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather ma...

During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.

That night in Cartagena he again requested the songs of his youth, some so old he had to teach them ...

... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and ...

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth i...

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most ...

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are ...