868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

El chófer me previno: Cuidado, sabio, en esa casa matan. Le contesté: Si es por amor no importa.

The first line reads, "As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect...." When I read that line I thought to myself that I didn't know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago

Fiecare e stăpân pe propria-i moarte, iar singurul lucru pe care-l putem face, odată sosit ceasul,este să-i ajutăm pe oameni să moară fără teamă și dureri.

(...) el coronel Aureliano Buendía apenas si comprendió que el secreto de una buena veje no es otra cosa que un pacto honrado con la soledad.

...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía.

La necesidad de sentirse triste se le iba convirtiendo en un vicio a medida que le devastaban los años.

Había necesitado muchos años de sufrimiento y miseria para conquistar los privilegios de la soledad, y no estaba dispuesta a renunciar a ellos a cambio de una vejez perturbada por los falsos encantos de la misericordia.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.