Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There is always something left to love.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

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.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. And thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

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.

If I knew that today would be the last time I'd see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul.
If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I'd embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more.
If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I'd take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again.
If I knew this is the last time I see you, I'd tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.