Top 250 Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

156. “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

157. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

159. “She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

160. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

162. “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

163. “People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it’s very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing ‘Love in the Time of Cholera.’”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

165. “Inspiration gives no warnings.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

166. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

168. “Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

169. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

174. “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

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

181. “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

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

188. “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

189. “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

190. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

192. “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

193. “Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

194. “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

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

197. “Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

198. “This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

199. “In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez