Friday, 11 November 2011

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."

"He who awaits much can expect little."

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

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

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

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

“...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.”

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

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

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

“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

“Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.”

“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.”

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

“Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same.”

“Memories of My Melancholy Whores,”

“One Hundred Years of Solitude”

“The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line.”

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

“My vocabulary isn't very good. I have to keep looking up words in the dictionary.”

“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.”

“It should make then ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time.”

"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."

"Necessity has the face of a dog."

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

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can."

"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."

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


Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 13 phrases of living

1. I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when I’m by your side am.

2. No person deserves your tears, and who deserves them won’t make you cry.

3. Just because someone doesn’t love you as you wish, it doesn’t mean you‘re not loved with all his/her being.

4. A true friend is the one who holds your hands and touches your heart.

5. The worst way to miss someone is to be seated by his/her side and know you’ll never have him/her.

6. Never stop smiling, not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

7. You may only be a person in this world, but for someone, you’re the world.

8. Don’t spend time with someone who doesn’t care spending it with you.

9. Maybe God wants you to meet many wrong people before you meet the right one, so when this happens, you’ll be thankful.

10. Don’t cry because it came to end. Smile because it happened.

11. There will always be people who’ll hurt you, so you need to continue trusting, just be careful not to trust again in a person who hurts you.

12. Become a better person and be sure to know who are before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.

13. Don’t struggle so much, best things happened when not expected.

No comments:

Post a Comment