Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

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

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Jealousy knows more than truth does.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.