Top 250 Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

52. “A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

53. “He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

54. “When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

55. “Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

56. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

58. “Most critics don’t realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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59. “Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

60. “He who awaits much can expect little.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

62. “Shame has poor memory.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

63. “Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

64. “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

65. “The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

66. “The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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67. “One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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68. “It’s much more important to write than to be written about.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

69. “How strange women are.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

71. “But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

72. “A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

73. “Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

74. “Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

75. “It is easier to start a war than to end it.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

76. “I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

77. “Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

79. “Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

80. “He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

81. “Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

82. “He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

83. “Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

84. “As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

85. “Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

86. “It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

87. “Le temps ne passe pas, il tourne en rond.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

88. “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

89. “In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

90. “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.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

91. “I’ve remained a virgin for you.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

92. “She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

94. “Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

95. “I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

96. “One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

97. “Hate and love are reciprocal passions.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

98. “She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

99. “Fatality makes us invisible.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

100. “I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez