Top 360 Quotes & Sayings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
He who awaits much can expect little.
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Do not allow me to forget you
Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
Inspiration gives no warnings.
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.
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