Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth

"When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her."

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una dependencia mezquina e insalubre, tanto más efímera cuanto más intensa.

على الناس الذين يحبهم المرء أن يموتوا مع كل أشيائهم

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

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

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Todavia era demasiado joven para saber que la memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio
logramos sobrellevar el pasado.

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

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.