Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

There is always something left to love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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

~ Gabriel García Márquez

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Do not allow me to forget you

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

~ Gabriel García Márquez

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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

~ Gabriel García Márquez

You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday.Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardo's horrified shriek and the shouting of the servants and then of the entire neighborhood. She dropped the tasting spoon and tried to run despite the invincible weight of her age, screaming like a madwoman without knowing yet what had happened under the mango leaves, and her heart jumped inside her ribs when she saw her man lying on his back in the mud, dead to this life but still resisting death's final blow for one last minute so that she would have time to come to him. He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked for her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful that she had ever seen them in the half century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath:Only God knows how much I loved you.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiempo, volviéndose recuerdos, brumas de otra época, hasta que los asimilaba el olvido.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

~ Gabriel García Márquez