Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.
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Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.
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Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it...
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Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
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It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
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I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
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If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
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Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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We'll grow old waiting.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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Cease, cows, life is short.
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You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
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Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.