One Hundred Years Of Solitude Quotes

• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Decision, Feelings, Matter

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Nov 23, 2012

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• It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Birthday, Inspiring, Graduation

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 23, 2011

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• Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Opportunity, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 16, 2013

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• No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Matter, No Matter What

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”, p.59, Penguin UK

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• All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Secret, Three, Humans

  "Gabriel García Márquez: a Life". Book by Gerald Martin, www.theguardian.com. 2008.

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Romantic, Regret, Dying

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Sad, Stay Strong, Tears

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 29, 2011

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• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Inspiring, Memories, Heart

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• In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Strong, Sleep, Dust

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 404), 1967.

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Secret, Age

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• "Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Philosophical, Soul, Wake Up

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, 1967.

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• A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Doubt, Cholera

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 31, 2014

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• One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Forgive And Forget, Minutes, Whole Life

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.626, Penguin UK

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• A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Book, Eye, Writing

  "Gabriel García Márquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69". Interviewed with Peter H. Stone. Issue 82, p. 322, www.theparisreview.org. Winter 1981.

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• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Lying, Spring

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.198, Infobase Publishing

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• wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• There is always something left to love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Romantic, I Hate You

  "Gabriel García Márquez: 'He made no claim for his divinity'" by Mona Simpson, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• 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.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Home, Whales, Wife

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Dec 09, 2011

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• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Sex, Wall, Women

  "Love in the Time of Cholera". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1985.

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• Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Army, Humanity, Fields

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Heart, Literature

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1365, Penguin UK

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• Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Cost, Paradise

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• ...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Children, Two

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