Top 250 Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

152. “Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

153. “Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

154. “Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

155. “It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

156. “The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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157. “While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

158. “La fatalidad nos hace invisibles.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

159. “The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

160. “Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

161. “Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

162. “Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

163. “Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

164. “An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

165. “Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

166. “It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

167. “She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

168. “Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

169. “I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

170. “It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

171. “From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

172. “When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

173. “Let me stay here,” he said. “There was soap.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

174. “I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

175. “Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

176. “My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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177. “She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

178. “I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they’re dead, because that’s where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

179. “The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

180. “When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

181. “The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not – when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

182. “It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

183. “Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

184. “For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

185. “Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

186. “He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

187. “Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

188. “And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

189. “He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

191. “I don’t know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it’s true. We aren’t satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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192. “The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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193. “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.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

194. “It was a love of perpetual flight.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

195. “The truth is I’m getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don’t feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

196. “Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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197. “He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

198. “Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

199. “In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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