868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

...and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.

Patrickio Aragonés had already impassively survived six assassination attempts,had acquired the habit of dragging his feet which had been flattened out with amallet, his ears buzzed, and his hernia ached at dawn in the winter, and he hadlearned to take off and put on the golden spur as if the straps were tangled upsimply to gain time at audiences muttering God damn it these buckles Flemishblacksmiths make aren't even good for this...

Él era más sano que el resto de nosotros, pero cuando usted escuchó con el estetoscopio se podía oír las lágrimas burbujeo dentro de su corazón.

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

No sentía sed ni hambre. No sentía nada, aparte de una indeferencia general por la vida y la muerte. Pensé que me estaba muriendo. Y esa idea me llenó de una extraña y oscura esperanza.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.

… она слышала <…> глубокую, пропитанную запахом растоптанных цветов тишину («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)