Life Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cease, cows, life is short.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nobody teaches life anything.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Love if it existed was something separate: another life.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I never have thought about age as a leak in the roof indicating the quantity of life one has left to live.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: "I give you my life in this rose.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over…

— Gabriel García Márquez

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his…

— Gabriel García Márquez

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had leapt over the arduous…

— Gabriel García Márquez

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Things have a life of their own. It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez