Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary 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. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

He who awaits much can expect little. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)