Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.
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.
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
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...
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
