Time Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morality, too, is a question of time.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“It is better to arrive in time than to be”

— Gabriel García Márquez

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I returned home tormented by the little demon who whispers into our ear the devastating replies we didn’t give at the right…

— Gabriel García Márquez

and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with…

— Gabriel García Márquez

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle…

— Gabriel García Márquez

If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord…

— 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

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“All right, girl," he said to her, trembling with rage, "tell us who it was." She only took the time necessary to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

“At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“She could not avoid a profound feeling of rancor toward her husband for having left her alone in the middle of the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Around the time they were preparing Jose Arcadio for the seminary she had already made a detailed recapitulation of life in the…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez