Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
There is always something left to love.
I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
She had already lost the possibility of being able to change her happiness.
What matters in life is not where you are coming from but where you are going.
A person doesn’t die when he should, but when he can.
I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
There is always something left to lose.
He who awaits much can expect little.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else’s heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes part 2
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
To be a single woman who wants a lover is to put oneself in the position of having to be constantly, constantly available, and vaguely penitent. To want someone completely is to have a heavy heart.
I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
A person doesn’t die when he should, but when he can.
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
It is not time that makes a marriage successful. It’s the choices people make.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Love is the only thing that interests me.
Human memory is a cosmic memory bank. They pass into one another’s keeping the things that lovers forget.
I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when I’m by your side.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it.
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.
A person doesn’t die when he should, but when he can.
There is always something left to lose.
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Human memory is a cosmic memory bank. They pass into one another’s keeping the things that lovers forget.
It is not time that makes a marriage successful. It’s the choices people make.
I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when I’m by your side.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
Death is not the opposite of life but an innate part of it.
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
When you have insomnia, you’re never really asleep, and you’re never really awake.
A person doesn’t die when he should, but when he can.
There is always something left to lose.
