Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes


"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Marriage, Love, Night)

"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Reality)

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Heart, Memory)

"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Friendship, Love, Children, Delight)

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Tears, Will)

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Life)

"Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Marriage, Happiness, Stability)

"He who awaits much can expect little."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Money, Man, Poor)

"A person doesn't die when he should but when he can."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Husband, Man)

"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
(Related: Home, Wife, Day, Fiction)

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

"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Time, God, World)

"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Doctors)

"Necessity has the face of a dog."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Necessity)

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Father, Man, Old)

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
(Related: Dreams, People, Old)