Explore Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

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

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

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.

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.

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

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.

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

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

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

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.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

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

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.