Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

Morality, too, is a question of time.

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.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.

Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

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

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.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

Hate and love are reciprocal passions.