868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew’s courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.

The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

This soup tastes like windows.

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

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.

If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

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.

Le temps ne passe pas, il tourne en rond.