Colonels Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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

“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

“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

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

“Berhentilah sepi, hidup ini pendek.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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

“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

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

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

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

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