Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.
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From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
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Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
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His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.
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The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.
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Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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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.
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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.
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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.
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Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.
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This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
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Fatality makes us invisible.
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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.
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I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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There had never been a death so foretold.