Gabriel García Márquez: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”

“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”

“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

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

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

“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”

“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”

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

“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”

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

“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”

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

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

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

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

“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”

“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”

“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”