868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.

...because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

Он действительно побывал на том свете, но не смог вынести одиночества и возвратился назад («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment.