Gabriel García Márquez idézet

„Nem igaz, hogy az emberek azért nem mennek tovább az álmaik után, mert megöregszenek. Azért öregednek meg, mert már nem mennek az álmaik után.”

„Senki nem érdemli meg könnyeidet, és aki megérdemelné, az nem sirat meg.”

„Mindig marad valami, amit szeretni lehet.”

„Védekezne mondván, hogy a szerelem, bármi is legyen, elsősorban természetes tehetség. Azt mondaná: Vagy úgy születtél, hogy tudod, hogy kell szeretni, vagy sosem tudod meg.”

„Mondj igent. Még akkor is, ha haldokolsz a félelemtől, még akkor is, ha később sajnálni fogod, mert bármit is teszel, egész életedben bánni fogod, ha nemet mondasz.”

„Minden ember ura a saját halálának, és csak annyit tehetünk, ha eljön az ideje, hogy segítsünk neki meghalni anélkül, hogy félne a fájdalomtól.”

„Az emberi lények nem egyszer és mindenkorra születnek meg azon a napon, amikor az anyjuk világra hozza őket, hanem... az élet arra kötelezi őket, hogy újra és újra megszüljék önmagukat.”

„…az időt is érik ütések és balesetek, miáltal darabokra törhet, és otthagyhatja egy szobában valamelyik örök szilánkját.”

„Az életben nem az számít, hogy mi történik veled, hanem az, amire emlékszel és hogyan emlékszel rá.”

„A szív memóriája a rossz emlékeket kiveti magából, a jókat pedig felnagyítja, s ezzel a csalafintasággal érjük el, hogy el tudjuk viselni a múlt terheit.”

„A bölcsesség akkor jut el hozzánk, amikor már nem tud jót tenni.”

„Az igaz barát az, aki megfogja a kezünket és megérinti a szívünket.”

„Azt bánom csak meg, ha nem a szerelemért halok majd meg.”

„A rossz egészségnél csak a rossz név rosszabb.”

„A hazugság kényelmesebb, mint a kétség, hasznosabb, mint a szeretet, tartósabb, mint az igazság.”

„A szex az a vigasz, amiben részesülsz, amikor nem tudsz szeretni.”

„... az idő nem telt el... körbe-körbe forgott...”

„Aztán még egyszer utoljára megpróbálta megkeresni a szívében azt a helyet, ahol a szeretete elrohadt, de nem találta.”

„Ez elkerülhetetlen volt: a keserű mandula illata mindig a viszonzatlan szerelem sorsára emlékeztette.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”

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

“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.”

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

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

“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.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

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

“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.”

“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

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

“Do not allow me to forget you”

“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.”

“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.”

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”

“his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.”

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

“Carmelita Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves over Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano Jose had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”

“There is always something left to love.”

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”