868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any decision for us that did not have our measure, for he had not survived everything because of his inconceivable courage or his infinite prudence but because he was the only one among us who knew the real size of our destiny.

Music is important for one's health.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.