Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

إن البشر لا يولدون دوما يوم تلدهم أمهاتهم، وإنما تجبرهم الحياة على ولادة أنفسهم بأنفسهم ثانية ولمرات عديدة.

También el amor se aprende

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

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.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

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. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

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

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

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.