Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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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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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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And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.
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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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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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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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If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.
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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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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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Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.
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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
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She felt the abyss of disenchantment.
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We'll grow old waiting.
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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
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Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
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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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Cease, cows, life is short.
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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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Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.
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For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
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It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.