Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. [A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love. One Hundred Years of Solitude

2. But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. Love in the Time of Cholera

3. Do not allow me to forget you Of Love and Other Demons

4. Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

5. Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..

6. Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. One Hundred Years of Solitude

7. He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs. One Hundred Years of Solitude

8. He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs. One Hundred Years of Solitude

9. He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. Love in the Time of Cholera

10. He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: Only God knows how much I loved you Love in the Time of Cholera

11. I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

12. Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. One Hundred Years of Solitude

13. It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself. Love in the Time of Cholera

14. It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. 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. Love in the Time of Cholera

15. It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

17. No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. Memories of My Melancholy Whores

18. No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

19. nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

20. One could be happy not only without love, but despite it. Love in the Time of Cholera

21. Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. Love in the Time of Cholera

22. That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later. Liefde in tijden van cholera

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

24. Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. One Hundred Years of Solitude

25. There is always something left to love. One Hundred Years of Solitude

26. 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. Love in the Time of Cholera

27. wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Love in the Time of Cholera

28. 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. Love in the Time of Cholera

29. Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room. One Hundred Years of Solitude

30. But Melquíades' tribe, according to what the wanderers said, had been wiped off the face of the earth because they had gone beyond the limits of human knowledge. One Hundred Years of Solitude