Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Shame has poor memory.
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One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.
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...wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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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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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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Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
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A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
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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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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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I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.
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And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.
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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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No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
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It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
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The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.
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Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.