Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

… for an instant I thought about stopping the cab to say goodbye, but I preferred not to defy again a destiny as uncertain and persistent as mine.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

الحكمة تأتينا في الوقت الذي لا تعود به ذات نفع

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

أن الكتب اشد خطورة من مؤلفيها

Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

[O]ne can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

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.

The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar.

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

أن النساء يفكرن بالمعنى الخفي للأسئلة أكثر من تفكيرهن بالأسئلة ذاتها

Fermina, he said, 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.

قال: لكن لم يمت لنا أحد هنا. ولا ينتسب الإنسان إلى أرض لا موتى له تحت ترابها

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.