Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.
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Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.
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The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.
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She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .
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...wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
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That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think... .
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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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.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.
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His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .