Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

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

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

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

because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth

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.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

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

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

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

She was lost in her longing to understand.

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

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.