868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

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

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Levantó la vista para ver quien pasaba por la ventana, y esa mirada casual fue el origen de un cataclismo de amor que medio siglo después no había terminado.

Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground. Ursula stood up to him. "In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint,

Her happiness lay at the other extreme from discipline, in noisy parties, in gossip about lovers, in prolonged sessions with her girl friends, where they learned to smoke and talked about male business, and where they once got their hands on some cane liquor and ended up naked, measuring and comparing the parts of their bodies.

t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirredthe certainty of death in the depths of one’s soul.

¿Que esperabas? - suspiró Úrsula -. El tiempo pasa.- Así es - admitió Aureliano-, pero no tanto.

Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.

– Не тревожь меня из-за всякой мелочи, — приказал полковник Аурелиано Буэндиа. — Спроси ответа у Божественного Провидения («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)