Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

“Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

“[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”

“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.”

“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.”

“Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.”

“Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”

“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”

“It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.”

“That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .”

“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”

“A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.”

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

“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.”

“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

“And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.”

“Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.”

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

“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.”

“Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

“Hate and love are reciprocal passions.”

“There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.”