Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Necessity has the face of a dog.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

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.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

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

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

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

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

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.