Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

[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.

"Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap."

La necesidad de sentirse triste se le iba convirtiendo en un vicio a medida que le devastaban los años.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

… 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.

"One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.