14+ Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez quotes and sayings.

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

No medicine cures what happiness cannot. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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 Garcí­a Márquez

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. — Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez