Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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.
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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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She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
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The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
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the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end
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Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
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She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.
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It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.
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Inspiration gives no warnings.
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She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
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The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
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I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
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He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.
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But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
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I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
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She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.