Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
-
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
-
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.
-
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
-
It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.
-
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.
-
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
-
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
-
That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think... .
-
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
-
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
-
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
-
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
-
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
-
He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.
-
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
-
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
-
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
-
...wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
-
Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
-
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
-
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
-
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
-
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
-
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.