Quotes By Author: Gabriel García Márquez

“The ferocity of Santiago Nasar’s fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.”

“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”

“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think…”

“Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

“sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love”