868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Pero el silencio era diáfana en el calor de las cuatro, y por la ventana del dormitorio se veía el perfil de la ciudad antigua con el sol de la tarde en las espaldas, sus cúpulas doradas, su mar en llamas hasta Jamaica.

Sabía que el despertar de cada mañana seguiría siendo difícil, pero lo seria cada vez menos

La bahía era un remanso al amanecer.

Los celos, hasta entonces ahogados en llanto, se hicieron dueños de su alma.

—¿Qué dice? —preguntó. —Está muy triste —contestó Úrsula— porque cree que te vas a morir. —Dígale —sonrió el coronel— que uno no se muere cuando debe, sino cuando puede.

What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.

At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.

Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly -

-Kujtomë me një trëndafil, - i tha.