Quotes on One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

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

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

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

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

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

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.