Top 250 Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Only God knows how much I love you.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

3. “Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

5. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

6. “No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

7. “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

8. “The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

10. “There is no greater glory than to die for love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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11. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

12. “There is always something left to love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

13. “Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

14. “Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

16. “The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

17. “El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

18. “He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

19. “A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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21. “Do not allow me to forget you.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

22. “Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

23. “It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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24. “If you love something – let. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

25. “No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

26. “She was lost in her longing to understand.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

27. “Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

28. “Sex is one’s consolation when love is not enough.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

29. “Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

30. “Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

31. “Morality, too, is a question of time.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

33. “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

34. “To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

36. “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...”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

37. “Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

38. “I have never done anything except write, but I don’t possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

39. “You can’t eat hope,? the woman said. You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,? the colonel replied.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

40. “If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

41. “Cease, cows, life is short.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

42. “I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

43. “They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

44. “Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

45. “For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

46. “She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

47. “He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

48. “Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

49. “I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

50. “Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez