Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

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..

El hecho de que alguien no te ame como tú quieras, no significa que no te ame con todo su ser.

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

Era lo último que iba quedando de un pasado cuyo aniquilamiento no se consumaba, porque seguía aniquilándose indefinidamente, consumiéndose dentro de sí mismo, acabándose a cada minuto pero sin acabar de acabarse jamás.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

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 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

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Los seres humanos no nacen para siempre el día en que sus madres los alumbran, sino que la vida los obliga a parirse a sí mismos una y otra vez.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.

‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not — when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.