"He really had been through death, but..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.”
“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”
“It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.”
More on Solitude
“An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.”
“Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.”
“The coward does not know what it means to be alone: an enemy is always standing behind his chair.”
More on Death
“Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.”
“I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.”
“My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.”