Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

¡Carajo! -gritó.
Amaranta, que empezaba a meter la ropa en el baúl, creyó que la había picado un alacrán.
-¡Dónde está! -preguntó alarmada.
-¿Qué?
-¡El animal! -aclaró Amaranta.
Úrsula se puso un dedo en el corazón.
-Aquí -dijo.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados.

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

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

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

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.

"Halfway through one August day, while she was embroidering with her friends, she heard someone coming to the door. She didn't have to look to see who it was. "He was fat and was beginning to lose his hair, and he already needed glasses to see things close by," she told me. "But it was him, God damn it, it was him!

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending to all of them that they leave Macondo, that they forget everything he had taught them about the world and the human heart, that they shit on Horace, and that wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.