Gabriel García Márquez: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”