868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

Fatality makes us invisible.

This soup tastes like windows

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.