Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things dont last your whole life.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo.

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Its enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

If God hadnt rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

You cant eat hope, the woman said.You cant eat it, but it sustains you, the colonel replied.

Tell him, the colonel said, smiling, that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday.Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardos horrified shriek and the shouting of the servants and then of the entire neighborhood. She dropped the tasting spoon and tried to run despite the invincible weight of her age, screaming like a madwoman without knowing yet what had happened under the mango leaves, and her heart jumped inside her ribs when she saw her man lying on his back in the mud, dead to this life but still resisting deaths final blow for one last minute so that she would have time to come to him. He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked for her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful that she had ever seen them in the half century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath:Only God knows how much I loved you.

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

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.