Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Cease, cows, life is short.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.

y el gozo que le produjo esa mujer, le había permitido entender por que los hombres tenían miedo a la muerte CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

La vida no es la vida que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo recuerda para contarla

Cuando despierte - dijo- , recuérdame que me voy a casar con ella !

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

Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.

All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera

Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.

So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high

Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died.

It was an absurd journey.

e quando houve em cada prato uma dose igual de ministro da Defesa com recheio de pinhões e ervas aromáticas ele deu a ordem de começar, bom proveito, meus senhores.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone's. 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 in itself.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

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.