Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

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

Gabriel García Márquez
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

Gabriel García Márquez
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Gabriel García Márquez
Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Gabriel García Márquez
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel García Márquez
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.

Gabriel García Márquez
His examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Gabriel García Márquez
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

Gabriel García Márquez
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Gabriel García Márquez
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

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

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

Gabriel García Márquez
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

Gabriel García Márquez
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

Gabriel García Márquez
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Gabriel García Márquez
… my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.

Gabriel García Márquez
… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

Gabriel García Márquez
No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Gabriel García Márquez
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

Gabriel García Márquez
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Gabriel García Márquez
When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

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

Gabriel García Márquez
A process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

Gabriel García Márquez
He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.

Gabriel García Márquez
When he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia.

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

Gabriel García Márquez
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Gabriel García Márquez
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

Gabriel García Márquez
Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you.

Gabriel García Márquez