Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
He who awaits much can expect little.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
You can't eat hope' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you, the colonel replied.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
There is always something left to love.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Freedom is often the first casualty of war.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
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.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.
If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.
If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.
If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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.
