Gabriel García Márquez: Trending quotes

“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

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

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

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

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

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

“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”

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

“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”

“Do not allow me to forget you”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”

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

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”