Gabriel García Márquez: Trending quotes
Gabriel García Márquez trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Variant: There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 119
Context: In the shattered schoolhouse where for the first time he had felt the security of power, a few feet from the room where he had come to know the uncertainty of love, Arcadio found the formality of death ridiculous. 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. He did not speak until they asked him for his last request.
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons
Source: Of Love and Other Demons
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 279, referring to Amaranta
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship.”
Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 282, said by Úrsula