--- title: "21 Years Quotes By Gabriel García Márquez" description: "21 Years quotes by Gabriel García Márquez. Plus more from Gabriel García Márquez and more Years sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_life_from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life_1060847.jpg" --- > [“From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life-not-by-years-but-by-decades/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_life_from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life_1060847.jpg) > [races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/races-condemned-to-100-years-of-solitude-did-not-have-a-second/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_100-years_races-condemned-to-100-years-of-solitude_3076705.jpg) > [Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/florentina-ariza-had-kept-his-answer-ready-for-fifty-three-years/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fb/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_answers_florentina-ariza-had-kept-his-answer-rea_420689.jpg) > [The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/the-year-i-turned-ninety-i-wanted-to-give-myself-the-gift-of-a-night/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/26e/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_giving_the-year-i-turned-ninety-i-wanted-to-giv_256247.jpg) > [In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/in-some-way-impossible-to-ascertain-after-so-many-years-of-absense/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/485/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_children_in-some-way-impossible-to-ascertain-afte_1873703.jpg) > [She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/she-would-not-shed-a-tear-she-would-not-waste-the-rest-of-her-years/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2a/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_heart_she-would-not-shed-a-tear-she-would-not_42397.jpg) > [“The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/the-human-body-is-not-made-to-endure-all-the-years-that-one-may-live/) [Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d29/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_human-body_the-human-body-is-not-made-to-endure-all_2030990.jpg) > [No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/no-matter-what-you-do-this-year-or-in-the-next-hundred-you-will-be/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/175/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_forever_no-matter-what-you-do-this-year-or-in-th_2206468.jpg) > [People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/people-spend-a-lifetime-thinking-abouthow-they-would-really-like-to/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_cholera_people-spend-a-lifetime-thinking-aboutho_1868831.jpg) > [In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/in-her-final-years-she-would-still-recall-the-trip-that-with-the/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e26/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_finals_in-her-final-years-she-would-still-recal_212714.jpg) > [Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/many-years-later-in-front-of-the-firing-squad-colonel-aureliano-buend/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fc/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_afternoon_many-years-later-in-front-of-the-firing_2730412.jpg) > [It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/it-was-the-year-they-fell-into-devastating-love-neither-one-could-do/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6f/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_dream_it-was-the-year-they-fell-into-devastati_1513910.jpg) > [Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/over-the-years-they-both-reached-the-same-wise-conclusion-by/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/061/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_conclusion_over-the-years-they-both-reached-the-sam_746035.jpg) > [Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/most-critics-don-t-realize-that-a-novel-like-one-hundred-years-of/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74c/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_bits_most-critics-don-t-realize-that-a-novel_1013932.jpg) > [Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/before-reaching-the-final-line-however-he-had-already-understood-that/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc4/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_cities_before-reaching-the-final-line-however-h_293021.jpg) > [Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/carmelia-montiel-a-twenty-year-old-virgin-had-just-bathed-in-orange/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f0/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_age_carmelia-montiel-a-twenty-year-old-virgi_1664863.jpg) > [In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/in-the-end-all-books-are-written-for-your-friends-the-problem-after/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/478/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_book_in-the-end-all-books-are-written-for-you_990893.jpg) > [She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/she-felt-so-old-so-worn-out-so-far-away-from-the-best-moments-of-her/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_ashes_she-felt-so-old-so-worn-out-so-far-away_1231373.jpg) > [The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/the-only-thing-he-could-do-to-stay-alive-was-not-to-allow-himself-the/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/069/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_alive_the-only-thing-he-could-do-to-stay-alive_1888704.jpg) > [She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/she-always-had-a-headache-or-it-was-too-hot-always-or-she-pretended/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b3/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_class_she-always-had-a-headache-or-it-was-too_2949222.jpg) > [And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/and-again-as-always-after-so-many-years-we-were-still-in-the-same/) [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e4/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_place_and-again-as-always-after-so-many-years_799056.jpg) ## Other authors on Years ## 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/years/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/#itemlist", "name": "21 Years Quotes By Gabriel García Márquez", "numberOfItems": 21, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabriel García Márquez" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life-not-by-years-but-by-decades/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_life_from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life_1060847.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_life_from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life_1060847.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/301/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_life_from-then-on-i-began-to-measure-my-life_1060847.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades.” — Gabriel García Márquez", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gabriel García Márquez" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/races-condemned-to-100-years-of-solitude-did-not-have-a-second/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_100-years_races-condemned-to-100-years-of-solitude_3076705.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_100-years_races-condemned-to-100-years-of-solitude_3076705.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez-116_100-years_races-condemned-to-100-years-of-solitude_3076705.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 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