Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes - Page 2

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

Fatality makes us invisible.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

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

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. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

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 men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.