Gabriel García Márquez: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Morality, too, is a question of time.”

“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”

“It was a love of perpetual flight.”

“Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.”

“Both looked back then on the wild revelry… and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.”

“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”

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

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”

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

“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”

“He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.”

“He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.”

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”

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

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

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