Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

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..

She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

Cease, cows, life is short.

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

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

Only God knows how much I love you.

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

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

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.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.