--- title: "7 Little by little Quotes By Gabriel García Márquez" description: "7 Little by little quotes by Gabriel García Márquez. Plus more from Gabriel García Márquez and more Little by little sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_ageing_they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-w_13374.jpg" --- > [“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-who-did-not-see-themselves/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_ageing_they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-w_13374.jpg) > [“Little by little he idolized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/little-by-little-he-idolized-her-endowing-her-with-improbable-virtues/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_heart_little-by-little-he-idolized-her-endowin_114514.jpg) > [“Get down! Get down!" The people in front had already done so, swept down by the wave of bullets. The survivors, instead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/get-down-get-down-the-people-in-front-had-already-done-so-swept-down/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_computers_get-down-get-down-the-people-in-front-ha_496894.jpg) > [“On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/on-rainy-afternoons-embroidering-with-a-group-of-friends-on-the/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eca/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_bad-taste_on-rainy-afternoons-embroidering-with-a_1190335.jpg) > [“When his father told him about his alarm at having forgotten even the most impressive happenings of his childhood, Aureliano explained his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/when-his-father-told-him-about-his-alarm-at-having-forgotten-even-the/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf7/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_every-morning_when-his-father-told-him-about-his-alarm_1307289.jpg) > [“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/little-by-little-she-had-been-discovering-the-uncertainty-of-her/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/576/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_aging_little-by-little-she-had-been-discoverin_2075955.jpg) > [Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/little-by-little-studying-the-infinite-possibilities-of-a-loss-of/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b0/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_god-exists_little-by-little-studying-the-infinite-p_2810624.jpg) ## Other authors on Little by little ## More by 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 Ariza, his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/the-captain-looked-at-fermina-daza-and-saw-on-her-eyelashes-the-first/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/courage-did-not-come-from-the-need-to-survive-or-from-a-brute/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/he-aprendido-que-un-hombre-s-lo-tiene-derecho-a-mirar-a-otro-hacia/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/from-the-moment-i-wrote-leaf-storm-i-realized-i-wanted-to-be-a-writer/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/he-sank-into-the-rocking-chair-the-same-one-in-which-rebecca-had-sat/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“Berhentilah sepi, hidup ini pendek.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/berhentilah-sepi-hidup-ini-pendek/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-who-did-not-see-themselves/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/i-didn-t-do-any-of-what-they-told-me-she-said-because-the-more-i/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/he-thought-about-his-people-without-sentimentalily-with-a-strick/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/why-were-you-so-old-when-we-met-i-answered-with-the-truth-age-isn-t/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/between-the-covers-of-the-books-that-no-one-had-ever-read-again-in/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/i-was-asked-the-other-day-if-i-would-be-interested-in-the-nobel-prize/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/fear-had-absorbed-her-completely-and-remained-there-fixed-tenacious/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/today-i-know-i-was-right-the-adolescents-of-my-generation-greedy-for/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) > [“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/it-was-then-for-the-first-time-that-she-understood-above-all-her/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/little-by-little/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/#itemlist", "name": "7 Little by little Quotes By Gabriel García Márquez", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabriel García Márquez" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-who-did-not-see-themselves/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_ageing_they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-w_13374.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_ageing_they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-w_13374.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_ageing_they-were-people-whose-lives-were-slow-w_13374.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying…” — Gabriel García Márquez", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Little by little he idolized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing else but her.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabriel García Márquez" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/little-by-little-he-idolized-her-endowing-her-with-improbable-virtues/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_heart_little-by-little-he-idolized-her-endowin_114514.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_heart_little-by-little-he-idolized-her-endowin_114514.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c4d/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_heart_little-by-little-he-idolized-her-endowin_114514.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Little by little he idolized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after…” — Gabriel García Márquez", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Get down! 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He went to the corral and marked the animals and plants: cow, goat, pig, hen, cassava, caladium, banana. Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use. Then he was more explicit. The sign that he hung on the neck of the cow was an exemplary proof of the way in which the inhabitants of Macondo were prepared to fight against loss of memory: \"This is the cow. She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk.\" Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. 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