Quotes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - somelinesforyou

“ If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ 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. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ No medicine cures what happiness cannot. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ [A mother] discovers 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. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ There is always something left to love. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two wornout people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ 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. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ nothing in this world was more difficult than love. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

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

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez
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