Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

“he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

topic:love

“hate and love are reciprocal passions.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

topic:lovehate

“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.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

topic:lifeself

“a person doesn't die when he should but when he can.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

topic:death

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

― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

topic:heart

“it was easier to start a war than to end one.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

topic:war

“Even in his youth Florentino Ariza climbed up and down stairs with special care, for he had always believed that old age began with one's first minor fall and that death came with the second.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

topic:age

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

topic:existence