Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a Colombian writer, considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. He is also one of the best Latin novelists of all time.
He started off as a journalist in his home country of Colombia and was known by the nickname “Gabo”. Shortly after beginning his career as a journalist, he started writing as well.
In 1967 he received international acclaim for his book ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’, for which he also won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The novel has since then sold millions of copies worldwide and the literary community has noted Marquez’s mastery in creating rich worlds of imagination by combining the realistic and the fantastic.
Gabo’s works are often centered around themes such as solitude.
He is one of the first writers to coin and help popularize magical realism – a literary style where mythical elements are combined together with realistic situations and environments.
In fact, most of his books are written in this genre – including his most famous ones, ‘Love In The Time Of Cholera’ and ‘One Hundred Years Of Solitude’. This sprinkle of magic is what gives the Colombian writer the irresistible charm and memorability of his novels.
To celebrate this significant author of the Spanish-speaking world and of the 20th century, here are some of his best quotes.
Bes Quotes By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
2. “Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”
3. “There’s no greater misfortune than dying alone.”
4. “I don’t have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It’s not a scientific thing.”
5. “I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
6. “Jealousy knows more than truth does.”
7. “An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”
8. “The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”
9. “Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
10. “Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”
11. “My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”
12. “Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
Wise Words by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
13. “There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”
14. “I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”
15. “In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”
16. “To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”
17. “Always tell what you feel. Do what you think…”
18. “Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
19. “There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
20. “The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
21. “Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that he does not love with all his being.”
22. “A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
23. “Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”
24. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
25. “It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
26. “There is always something left to love.”
27. “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
28. “Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
29. “All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
30. “A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
Best Love Quotes by Gabo
31. “The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
32. “I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
33. “Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.”
34. “The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.”
35. “The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love is an ephemeral truth in the end”
36. “The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.”
37. “There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart”
38. “She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.”
39. “The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.”
40. “Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.”
Last Life Quotes By Gabriel Garcia Marques
41. “Things have a mind of its own; it’s simply the matter of waking up their souls.”
42. “Hate and love are reciprocal passions.”
43. “The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown ever less free ever more solitary.”
44. “There is great power in the irresistible force of love.”
45. “I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”
46. “Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning”
47. “There are things you do only for love.”
48. “The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past”
49. “I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth, because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone, you dress and perfume yourself for someone, and I’d never had anyone to do that for.”
“50. A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.”
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