Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Top 25 Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes and Sayings
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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.
Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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.
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.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
There is always something left to love.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
No medicine cures what happiness cannot.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.