Best quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

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

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.

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

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

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

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.

Do not allow me to forget you

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

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.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

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.

Inspiration gives no warnings.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

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

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

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

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

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

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.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. 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. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

There is always something left to love.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

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.

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

Intrigued by that enigma, 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.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

We'll grow old waiting.

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

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

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.