Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cease, cows, life is short.

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

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia.

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.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

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.

El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

I've remained a virgin for you.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Le dijo que el amor era un sentimiento contra natura, que condenaba a dos desconocidos a una dependencia mezquina e insalubre, tanto más efímera cuanto más intensa.

Todavia era demasiado joven para saber que la memoria del corazón elimina los malos recuerdos y magnifica los buenos, y que gracias a ese artificio logramos sobrellevar el pasado.

Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .