“During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“…At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
![“[...] not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet or whose head, and feeling that he could no longer resist the glacial rumbling of his kidneys and the air of his intestines, and fear, and the bewildered anxiety to flee and at the…” quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e3f/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_fear_not-knowing-what-he-was-doing-because-he_2005728.jpg)
