35 Phrases By Gabriel García Márquez To Remember Him Forever

Gabriel García Márquez was a shrewd and very busy man, who managed to stand out for his light, fun and transgressive style and for his ability to convert the reader’s wishes and desires into wonderful pages.

Known by the nicknames “Gabito” or “Gabo”, he was a charismatic and profound man, who always carried a certain controversy due to his friendship with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his quarrels with Mario Vargas Llosa (another master of literature Hispanic). His works are full of phrases and landscapes that give the reader intense emotions and that make his conscience vibrate.

Today we offer you a selection of his best phrases to honor his greatness and to pay homage to his work and the wonders he shows us through his books.

1. Love is eternal as long as it lasts. (I only came to call).
2. I found with horror that one gets older and worse in portraits than in reality. (Have a nice trip, Mr. President)
3. Illusion cannot be eaten – said the woman. “We don’t eat, but we feed,” the colonel replied. (Nobody writes to the Colonel)
4. It is a triumph of life that the memory of the elderly is exhausted for the things that are not essential, but which rarely fails for those that really interest us. (Memory of my sad whores )
5. We don’t have another world we can move into.
6. ” They’ll be back, ” he said . ” Shame has a weak memory.”
7. The human body is not made for the years that one could live. (Of love and other demons).
8. The sea will grow with my tears. (The bad now).
9. He opened his eyes and remembered an old Spanish saying : “God never grant us what we are capable of enduring.” (News of a kidnapping).
10. I feel that the more I know her, the less I know her. (Of love and other demons).
11. Heal your heart. .. You’re rotting alive. (One Hundred Years of Solitude).
12. The worst way to miss someone is to sit next to them and know that you will never miss them.
13. The first sign of old age is starting to look like your father. (Memory of my sad whores).
14. Life is nothing more than a series of opportunities to survive.
15. In life, no place is sadder than an empty bed.

1. Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all of themselves.
2. Always remember that the most important thing in a marriage is not happiness, but stability. (Love in the time of cholera).
3. The secret to a peaceful old age is nothing more than a solemn pact with loneliness.
4. Life is the best thing ever invented.
5. There is no medicine that heals what does not heal happiness. (Of love and other demons).
6. Nobody deserves your tears, and those who deserve them won’t make you cry.
7. It baffles me to think that God exists as much as to think that He does not exist.
8. Love becomes greater and nobler during calamities.
9. In fact, the only time in life when I feel like myself is when I’m with my friends.
10. No, I don’t wish anyone success. It’s like mountaineers: they kill themselves to reach the top and when they get there what do they do? They get off or try to get off with caution, with the greatest possible dignity.
11. The memory of the heart eliminates the bad memories and emphasizes the good ones, it is thanks to this trick that we can endure the past.
12. When a newborn baby squeezes his father’s finger with his little fist for the first time, he has captured him forever.
13. You can only be a person to the world, but to someone the world is you.
14. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and you have to start building it again every morning before breakfast. (Love in the time of cholera)
15. Life is not what you lived, but what you remember and how you remember it to tell it.
16. The only thing that makes me suffer from dying is that it is not of love. (Love in the time of cholera)
17. A man has the right to look down on another man just to help him get up.
18. Never stop smiling, even when you are sad, because you don’t know who might fall in love with your smile.
19. Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.
20. Wisdom comes to us when it is no longer needed.