Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

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

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

There is no greater glory than to die for love.

Only God knows how much I love you.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

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.

...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

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

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

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

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

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