Gabriel García Márquez Quotes (Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude)
“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“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.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“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.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Layrinth
― Gabriel García Márquez, The General in His Layrinth
“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“What does he say?' he asked.
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.'
'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“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.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“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..”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“It was a love of perpetual flight.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia. ”
― Gabriel García Márquez
― Gabriel García Márquez
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