Dying Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

11 Dying quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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Marquez blends the ordinary with the extraordinary, even when confronting death. Across eleven evocative lines his lyrical voice makes the end feel both mythic and intimately human.

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“Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.”

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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

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

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The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

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I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more…

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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will…

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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager…

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“Do whatever you want, but don't lose that child," she said. "There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.”

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“In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to…

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

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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.

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