Gabriel García Márquez idézet

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„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.”

„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.”

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

„…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.”

“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”

“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”

“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”

“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”

“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”

“The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.”

“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”

“This soup tastes like windows”

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”

“The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.”

“Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.”

“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”

“She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”

“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”

“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.”

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

“It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.”

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”

“In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”