Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes (135 Quotes)

He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

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.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

After dinner, at five o'clock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each person opened his bed wherever he could find room, arranged it with the bedclothes from his petate, and set the mosquito netting over that. Those with hammocks hung them in the salon, and those who had nothing slept on the tablecloths that were not changed more than twice during the trip.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

Pierwszy z rodu jest przywiazany do drzewa, a ostatniego zjadaja mrowki.

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

Only God knows how much I love you.

Where art thou that thou art not here.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

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.

From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

The weak would never entered th kingdom of love.

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.