50 phrases by Gabriel García Márquez to delve into the author’s work

I want you not for who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.

Life is not what people lived, but what people remember, and how they remember to tell it.

One of the first symptoms of old age is that you start to look like your parents.

It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist in this moment.

Shame has a bad memory.

I believe in God – said the president – but I believe he has nothing to do with human beings. He’s into much bigger things.

Love is eternal while it lasts.

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

It’s not true that people stop following their dreams because they get older. They age because they stop following their dreams.

I rent myself to dream. In fact, it’s my only trade.

Lately, literature is like carpentry. With both you work with reality, a material as hard as wood.

Sex is a consolation for when you can’t love.

The only thing that hurts me about dying is knowing that it won’t be for love.

No matter what happens, no one can take away from you the dances you’ve already done.

She was about to drown in her own tears.

There is no medicine that cures what does not cure happiness.

No person deserves your tears and who deserves them will never make you cry.

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

It is useless for you to continue praying. Even God goes on vacation in August.

There will always be something to love.

Nostalgia, as usual, had erased the bad memories and exalted the good ones.

As I kissed her, her body heat increased and gave off a wild, uncontrollable fragrance.

Every human being has three lives: the public, the private and the secret.

There was no human power capable of defeating that ancient love.

She doesn’t love you the way you want doesn’t mean she doesn’t love you with all her being.

Let time pass and we will see what it brings.

All things have a life of their own, everything is a matter of awakening the soul.

I learned that a man only has the right to look down on another if it is to help him up.

A famous writer who wants to keep writing has to constantly defend himself from fame.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting next to them and knowing that you can never have them.

Wisdom is something that, when it knocks on our door, is no longer of any use to us.

What I like most about you – I say – is the seriousness that invents nonsense.

There is no sadder place in life than an empty bed.

A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, and more lasting than the truth.

There is no greater glory than dying for love.

Today, when I saw him, I discovered that only an illusion united us.

A writer only writes a single book, although that book appears in many volumes, with different titles.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

I would say that machismo, both in men and women, is nothing more than the usurpation of the rights of others.

Whoever does not have God, may he have superstitions.

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

We are all hostages to our prejudices.

Things have a life of their own. It’s all about awakening your soul

The heart has more rooms than a brothel.

Better to arrive on time than to be invited.

I’ve never been interested in an idea that doesn’t withstand many years of abandonment.

The spirit of her invisible heart guided her through the shadows.

I believe that technique and language are instruments determined by the theme of a book.

Loneliness, for me, is the opposite of solidarity.