Gabriel García Márquez Quotes


Gabriel García Márquez

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

The heart`s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

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

The heart`s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

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

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

If God hadn`t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

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

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

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

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

An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

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.

I don`t believe in God, but I`m afraid of Him.

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

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.

He who awaits much can expect little.

A person doesn`t die when he should but when he can.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.