Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes - Page 11

The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.

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

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and talked to myself in front of the mirror in the vain hope of confirming who I was. My delirium was so great that during a student demonstration complete with rocks and bottles, I had to make an enormous effort not to lead it as I held up a sign that would sanctify my truth: I am mad with love.

There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end