One Hundred Years Of Solitude Quotes - Page 2

• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Life, Mother, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from May 11, 2014

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• He who awaits much can expect little.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Procrastination, Expectations, Literature

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

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• The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eight, Differences, Today

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• Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Acceptance, Doors, Calm

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

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• Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Sex, Disappointment

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

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• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Book, Responsibility, Years

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• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Letters, Slipping

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• races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Opportunity, Race, Years

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• 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 Garcia Marquez

  Sorry, Dying, Rest Of Your Life

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Marriage, Wedding, Morning

  Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Bears

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• In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Keys, House

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.332, Penguin UK

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• He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Differences, Trying, Six

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Solitude, Lost, Immense

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (p. 166), 1967.

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• A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Doe, Persons

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Should, Said, Persons

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• Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crazy, People, Accepting

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• My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

  James Patterson

  Book, Years, Solitude

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• 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

  Francine Prose

  Thank You, School, Years

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

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Important, Literature, Remember

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

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• And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Everyday, Floating

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• The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Tree, Lines, Lasts

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.30, Infobase Publishing

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• Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Men, Imagination, Making Love

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• Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Orange, Years

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• He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Looks, Vegetarian, Forlorn

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

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