Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
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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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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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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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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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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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Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
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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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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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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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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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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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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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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Cease, cows, life is short.
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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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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.