Quotes by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
1927-2014 , Colombian writer
Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, mostly for his masterpiece “Cien años de soledad” (1967; One Hundred Years of Solitude). | 42 quotes | 1,657 visits |
Quotations
| • | A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. 14 |
| • | I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. 13 |
| • | Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. 9 |
| • | If you love something, let it go. If it is yours, it will come back. 8 |
| • | What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. 5 |
| • | For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened. 5 |
| • | Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. 5 |
| • | All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. 4 |
| • | A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up. 4 |
| • | The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. 4 |
| • | If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. 4 |
| • | Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected. 3 |
| • | No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. 3 |
| • | Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. 3 |
| • | It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. 3 |
| • | It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. |
| • | Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. |
| • | Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile. |
| • | Old people, with other old people, are not so old. |
| • | The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. |
| • | Do not allow me to forget you. |
| • | “Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.” |
| • | Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. |
| • | He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart. |
| • | Freedom is often the first casualty of war. |
| • | If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death. |
| • | A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. |
| • | Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself. |
| • | Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. |
| • | What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. |
| • | That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think . |
| • | Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. (first phrase of “One Hundred Years of Solitude”) |
| • | Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. |
| • | The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. |
| • | There's no greater misfortune than dying alone. |
| • | One does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. |
| • | A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. |
| • | The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. |
| • | No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever. |
| • | People doomed to live 100 years of solitude have no second chance on this earth. |
| • | Remember always that the most important thing in a wedding is not happiness but stability. |
Funny Quotes
| • | Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. |
