Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez sayings, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 Garcia Marquez
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 Garcia Marquez
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 Garcia Marquez
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
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. Gabriel Garcia Marquez