Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
...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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 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… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Things have a life of their own. It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“It is like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
