Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

Biography

Type: Novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist

Born: 6 March 1927

Died: 17 April 2014 (aged 87)

Gabriel José de la Concordia Garcí­a Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garcí­a Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

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

sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. Gabriel García Márquez
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

There is always something left to love.. Gabriel García Márquez
There is always something left to love.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.. Gabriel García Márquez
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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..

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.. Gabriel
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended
That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

Do not allow me to forget you. Gabriel García Márquez
Do not allow me to forget you

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.. Gabriel García Márquez
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.. Gabriel García Márquez
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.

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.

Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.. Gabriel García Márquez
Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

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.

It was a love of perpetual flight.. Gabriel García Márquez
It was a love of perpetual flight.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

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

Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiempo, volviéndose recuerdos, brumas de otra época, hasta que los asimilaba el olvido.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

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

You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

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

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.

‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.

It's never too late for anything,' the colonel said.

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

أن عزلة المصعد من أكثر العزلات ترويعًا

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Не говори мне о политике. Наше дело – продавать рыбок («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)

الفارق الوحيد بين الليبراليون و المحافظون ، هو أن الليبراليين يذهبون إلى قداس الساعة ا%

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

El sexo es el consuelo que uno tiene cuando no le alcanza el amor

nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love

The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.

We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love

Nós, homens, somos uns pobres escravos dos preconceitos (...)Por outro lado, quando uma mulher decide ir para a cama com um homm não há muralha qye não trema nem fortaleza que não caia, nem nenhuma consideração moral que esteja disposta a ser o seu fundamento: não há Deus que lhe valha.

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

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

Мы столько воевали, и все ради того, чтобы нам не перекрасили дома в голубой цвет («Сто л%B

What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.

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

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.

É incrível como se pode ser tão feliz durante tantos anos, no meio de tantas bulhas, no meio de tantas tretas, caramba, sem saber de facto se isso é amor ou não

And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.

Fermina Daza había rechazado a Florentino Ariza en un destello de madurez que pagó de inmediato con una crisis de lástima, pero nunca dudó de que su decisión había sido certera.

El primero de la estirpe está amarrado a un árbol y al último se lo están comiendo las hormigas.

At that moment Homero saw him with his heart and laid down his weapons

اگر منتظر چیزهای بزرگ باشیم راحت تر می توانیم منتظر چیزهای کوچکتر بمانیم.

I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.

Lo único mejor que la música es hablar de música.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Music is important for one’s health.

Dicen que soy un mafioso, porque mi sentido de la amistad es tal que resulta un poco el de los gánsteres: por un lado mis amigos y por el otro el resto del mundo, con el cual tengo muy poco contacto

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.
“No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Una mujer es como la buena literatura: al alcance de todos, pero incomprensible para los estúpidos.

A literatura era o melhor brinquedo que se tinha inventado para gozar com as pessoas

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.

literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.

Ni el uno ni el otro tenían vida para nada distinto de pensar en el otro, para soñar con el otro, para esperar las cartas con tanta ansiedad como las contestaban.

... y esa mirada casual fue el origen de un cataclismo de amor...

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

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