Gabriel García Márquez Quotes - Page 3

You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said.

‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.

It's never too late for anything,' the colonel said.

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. 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.

أن عزلة المصعد من أكثر العزلات ترويعًا

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Не говори мне о политике. Наше дело – продавать рыбок («Сто лет одиночества», Г.Г. Маркес)

الفارق الوحيد بين الليبراليون و المحافظون ، هو أن الليبراليين يذهبون إلى قداس الساعة ا�%

..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..

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.

El sexo es el consuelo que uno tiene cuando no le alcanza el amor

nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love

The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.