Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

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

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

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

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

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

Pero si algo habían aprendido juntos era que la sabiduría nos llega cuando ya no sirve para nada.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Ninguna persona que merece tus lagrimas. Y quien las merezcas no te hara llorar.

I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
fall in love when they grow old — not knowing that they grow old when they stop
falling in love.

How strange women are.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

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

No hay medicina que no cure lo que no cura la felicidad.