Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
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When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
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They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
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I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
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You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.
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Do not allow me to forget you...
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The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.
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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
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When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.
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Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
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...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.
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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.
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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.
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...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.