868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.

Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.

...so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede...

İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir.

Çünkü yüzyıllık yalnızlığa mahkum edilen soyların, yeryüzünde ikinci bir deney fırsatları olmazdı.

La memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artilugio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.

I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it won't be for long.

Colombia fue desde siempre un país de identidad caribe abierto al mundo por el cordón umbilical de Panamá. La amputación forzosa nos condenó a ser lo que hoy somos: un país de mentalidad andina con las condiciones propicias para que el canal entre los dos océanos no fuera nuestro sino de los Estados Unidos.