868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

لسنا نحن معشر الرجال سوى عبيد مساكين للإجحاف، وحين تقرر امرأة مضاجعة رجل ما، فليس هناك من جدار إلا وتقطعه، ولا حصن إلا وتحطمه، ولا إعتبار أخلاقي إلا وتكون مستعدة لخرقه من أساسه، وحتى أنها لا تحسب حساب وجود الله

...se aprende demasiado tarde que hasta las vidas más dilatadas y útiles no alcanzan para nada más que para aprender a vivir...

Sabíamos de sobra que era ardua y efímera pero no había otra, general.

Es la vida, más que la muerte, la que no tiene límites.

and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred tears of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One morning Ursula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she had already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel, when Santa Sofia de la Piedad discovered that her back was paved with leeches. She took them off one by one, crushing them with a firebrand before they bled her to death.

He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of so many cows, pigs and chickens for the endless parties that the ground in the courtyard turned black and muddy with so much blood. It was an eternal execution of bones and innards, a mud pit of leftovers, and they had to keep exploding dynamite bombs all the time so that the buzzards would not pluck out the guests' eyes.

We have to bring in the railroad,' he said.That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo. Looking at the sketch that Aureliano Triste drew on the table and that was a direct descendant of the plans that Jose Arcadio Buendia had illustrated his project for solar warfare, Ursula confirmed her impression that time was going in a circle.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.