868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Nobody teaches life anything.