Explore Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

We'll grow old waiting.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

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

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

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

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

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

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.