Gabriel García Márquez: Quotes about life

“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.”

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

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”

“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.”

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but… life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“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.”

“Cease, cows, life is short.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

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

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”

“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.”

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

“… my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.”