868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness."Damn it," he sighed. "How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

A sabedoria nos chega quando já não serve para nada.

The usual for me." The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta.

Уже тогда падре Антонио Исабель начал проявлять первые признаки старческого слабоумия, которое через несколько лет заставило его сказать, что, вероятно, дьявол одержал победу в своем мятеже против Бога и воссел на престоле небесном, никому не открывая, кто он такой на самом деле, дабы завлекать в свои сети неосторожных («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole...

Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.

Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.