Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes (135 Quotes)

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Old age began with one's 1st fall and the death came with the 2nd .

She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions a arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dung hill of war, the more the was resembled Amarant.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

A man knows when he is growing old cuz he begins to look like his father .

He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Shooting with his camera the animals tha they did not allow him to kill with his rifle .

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing.

With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.

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.

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

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

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

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.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

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

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.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Only God knows how much I love you.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Where art thou that thou art not here.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

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

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.