868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.