868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

İnsanlık bir bedel ödemeden ilerlemiyor.

This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.

She awoke long before dawn and lay exhausted and wakeful, with her eyes closed, thinking of the countless years she still had to live.

The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors.

Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to impose them on me with a heavy hand, and in them I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love.

As always happens, we thought we were very far from being happy then, and now we think the opposite. It's the trick of nostalgia, removing bitter moments from their place and painting them another color, and putting them back where they no longer hurt.

Su corazón de ceniza apelmazada, que había resistido sin quebrantos a los golpes más certeros de la realidad cotidiana, se desmoronó a los primeros embates de la nostalgia.

The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.