Gabriel García Márquez Books

“Fermina Daza había rechazado a Florentino Ariza en un destello de madurez que pagó de inmediato con una crisis de lástima, pero nunca dudó de que su decisión había sido certera.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love Pain Relationship Sadness Split

“Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía”

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Sadness Loneliness True Existencial Emptiness

Book:Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”

Love Fucking

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls.”

Soul Silence Communication

Book:Until August

Source: Until August

“Se tendieron en la cama, uno al lado del otro, y compartieron sus rencores, mientras el mundo se iba apagando y sólo iba quedando el cositeo del comején en el artesonado.”

Love Silence Amor Silencio Lay Descansar

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“It was not the fear of death. No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over his own shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream, and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

Death Fear Mortality

“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?”

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Fate

Book:Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.”

Death Fate Tragedy

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams”

Inspirational Quote Rest In Peace

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“Te quiero no por quien eres sino por quien soy cuando estoy contigo.”

Life Philosophy

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“„Nu plânge că s-a terminat, zâmbește pentru că s-a întâmplat.”

Cry Smile Over

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible.”

Love Madness

Book:Until August

Source: Until August

“Of Love and Other Demons (Vintage International) - Gabriel GarcÍA MÁRquez (Highlight: 5; Note: 0) ------------- "Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning." (Chapter:Chapter Two) "What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. And regarding that there can be no doubt, for it is He in His infinite diligence who has enlightened us so that we may offer you this consolation.”" (Chapter:Chapter Two) "Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses" (Chapter:Chapter Two) "Take care,” said Delaura. “Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.”" (Chapter:Chapter Three) ". He confessed that every moment was filled with thoughts of her, that everything he ate and drank tasted of her, that she was his life, always and everywhere, as only God had the right and power to be, and that the supreme joy of his heart would be to die with her. " (Chapter:Chapter Five)”

Love Madness Tragedy Demons

Book:Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“But his good intentions were frustrated by the firm intransigence of Rebeka, who had needed many years of suffering and misery in order to attain the privileges of solitude.”

Suffering Solitude

“But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel them pass.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Life Time Waiting Stagnant

“No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone," she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Loneliness

“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you will be alone, although at your husband's side, and I will ab alone in the midst of the world. The glory of having conquered ourselves will be our only consolation.”

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Loneliness

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.”

Love Loneliness

“Creo que las mujeres sostienen el mundo en vilo, para que no se desbarate mientras los hombres tratan de empujar la historia. Al final, uno se pregunta cuál de las dos cosas será la menos sensata.”

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Men Women History Society Feminism Gender Women S Rights

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“Càng có quyền lực, anh càng khó nhận ra ai đang nói thật, ai đang nói dối. Nếu nắm quyền lực tuyệt đối, anh không còn liên lạc nào với thực tế nữa, và đó là thứ cô đơn tồi tệ nhất.”

Powerful Lonely

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“In the past few years he had become conscious of the burden of his own body. He recognized the symptoms. He had read about them in textbooks, he had seen them confirmed in real life, in older patients with no history of serious ailments who suddenly began to describe perfect syndromes that seemed to come straight from medical texts and yet turned out to be imaginary. His professor of children’s clinical medicine at La Salpêtrière had recommended pediatrics as the most honest specialization, because children become sick only when in fact they are sick, and they cannot communicate with the physician using conventional words but only with concrete symptoms of real diseases.”

Children Health Disease Medicine Symptoms Pediatrics

“I am condemned to a theatrical destiny.”

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Destiny Theatrics

“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch.”

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

War Historical Fiction Family Relationships Latin America Political Fiction Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Не се тревожи - усмихваше се той.- Да умреш е много по-трудно, отколкото човек си мисли. В неговия случай бе вярно. Увереността, че денят му е насрочен, го облече в загадъчна неприкосновеност, в безсмъртие до определен срок, което го направи неуязвим за опасностите на войната и му позволи накрая да извоюва едно поражение, много по-трудно, много по-кърваво и скъпо, отколкото победата.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

War Death Fight

“The ground became soft and damp, like volcanic ash, and the vegetation was thicker and thicker, and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Universe Nature Sad

“When the pirate Sir Francis Drake attacked Riohacha in the sixteenth century Úrsula Iguarán's great-great-grandmother became so frightened with the ringing of alarm bells and the firing of cannons that she lost control of her nerves and sat down on a lighted stove. The burns turned her into a useless for the rest of her days.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Sad Colonialism Pirates One Hundred Years Of Solitude Nobel Prize In Literature

“siguió evocando hasta el amanecer las excelencias del marido, sin reprocharle otra deslealtad que la de haberse muerto sin ella, y redimida por la certidumbre de que nunca había sido tan suyo como lo era entonces, dentro de un cajón clavado con doce clavos de tres pulgadas, y a dos metros debajo de la tierra. —Soy feliz —dijo— porque sólo ahora sé con seguridad dónde está cuando no está en la casa.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Love Marriage Death Of A Loved One Black Humor Widowhood

Book:El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Source: El amor en los tiempos del cólera

“-Dime, qué comemos. El coronel necesitó setenta y cinco años -los setenta y cinco años de su vida, minuto a minuto- para llegar a ese instante. Se sintió puro, explícito, invencible, en el momento de responder: -Mierda.”

Novel

Book:El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

Source: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

“Lo único mejor que la música es hablar de música.”

Music Spanish Music Quotes Gabriel García Márquez

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“Ich will keine Blumen bei meiner Beerdigung", sagte er zu mir, ohne zu ahnen, daß ich am nächsten Tag dafür sorgen mußte, daß keine gestreut würden.”

Grief Death And Dying Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“Los adolescentes de mi generación avorazados por la vida olvidaron en cuerpo y alma las ilusiones del porvenir, hasta que la realidad les enseñó que el futuro no era como lo soñaban, y descubrieron la nostalgia”

Life Lessons

Book:Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain.”

Children Future Photography Aging

Children Medicine Sickness Pediatrics

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Books

Author:Gabriel García Márquez

“He had been a reader of imperturbable voracity during the respites after battles and the rests after love, but a reader without order or method. He read at any hour, in whatever light was available, sometimes strolling under the trees, sometimes on horseback under the equatorial sun, sometimes in dim coaches rattling over cobbled pavements, sometimes swaying in the hammock as he dictated a letter. A bookseller in Lima had been surprised at the abundance and variety of works he selected from a general catalogue that listed everything from Greek philosophers to a treatise on chiromancy. In his youth he read the Romantics under the influence of his tutor, Simón Rodríguez, and he continued to devour them as if he were reading himself and his own idealistic, intense temperament. They were impassioned readings that marked him for the rest of his life. In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times. The bookcases in the various houses he lived in were always crammed full, and the bedrooms and hallways were turned into narrow passes between steep cliffs of books and mountains of errant documents that proliferated as he passed and pursued him without mercy in their quest for archival peace. He never was able to read all the books he owned. When he moved to another city he left them in the care of his most trustworthy friends, although he never heard anything about them again, and his life of fighting obliged him to leave behind a trail of books and papers stretching over four hundred leagues from Bolivia to Venezuela.”

Reading Books Simon Bolivar

“She had read with rigor what she had to read, and went on reading what she liked best: love stories by well-known authors, the longer and more ill-fated the better.”

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

Reading Books

Book:Until August

Source: Until August

“Όταν σηκωνόταν η Φερνάντα, έβρισκε το πρωινό έτοιμο και ξανάβγαινε απ' το δωμάτιο της μονάχα για να πάρει το φαγητό της, που ο Αουρελιάνο της το άφηνε σκεπασμένο πάνω στη χόβολη και που εκείνη το πήγαινε στην τραπεζαρία για να φάει στο λινό τραπεζομάντηλο με τα καντηλέρια, καθισμένη στο μοναχικό κεφάλι του τραπεζιού, έχοντας απέναντί της δεκαπέντε άδειες καρέκλες. Ακόμα και σ' αυτές τις περιστάσεις, ο Αουρελιάνο και η Φερνάντα δεν μοιράζονταν τη μοναξιά τους, αλλά εξακολουθούσαν να ζουν ο καθένας τη δικιά του, καθαρίζοντας ο καθένας το δωμάτιο του, ενώ οι αράχνες σκέπαζαν σαν χιόνι τους ροδώνες, ταπετσάριζαν τα δοκάρια, έστρωναν τους τοίχους.”

Solitude

“Σκυθρωπός, σιωπηλός, αδιάφορος στη νέα πνοή ζωντάνιας που συγκλόνιζε το σπίτι, ο συνταγματάρχης Αουρελιάνο Μουενδία είχε καταλάβει καλά πως το μυστικό για τα καλά γερατειά δεν ήταν τίποτα περισσότερο από μια τίμια συμφωνία με τη μοναξιά.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Solitude

“...because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Solitude One Hundred Years Of Solitude

“Cuando el pelotón lo apuntó, la rabia se había materializado en una sustancia viscosa y amarga que le adormeció la lengua y lo obligó a cerrar los ojos. Entonces desapareció el resplandor de aluminio del amanecer, y volvió a verse a sí mismo, muy niño, con pantalones cortos y un lazo en el cuello, y vio a su padre en una tarde espléndida conduciéndolo al interior de la carpa, y vio el hielo.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Death Nostalgia One Hundred Years Of Solitude Macondo

Book:Cien años de soledad

Source: Cien años de soledad

“...both of them found themselves off course in the tide of a world that had ended and of which only the nostalgia remained.”

Time Memory Nostalgia

“As always happens, we thought we were very far from being happy then, and now we think the opposite. It's the trick of nostalgia, removing bitter moments from their place and painting them another color, and putting them back where they no longer hurt.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Nostalgia Beforetimes

Book:The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

Source: The Scandal of the Century: And Other Writings

“He had learned to learned to think coldly so that the inescapable memories would not touch any feelings.”

Memory Nostalgia

“He had learned to think coldly so that the inescapable memories would not touch any feelings.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Memory Nostalgia

“The years nowadays don't pass the way the old ones used to.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Time Aging Nostalgia Old

“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!" "Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they kill you or even if you die. And go now while you're still young, because one day it will be too late, and then you won't feel at home here or there. You'll feel like a stranger everywhere, and that's worse than being dead." He looked him straight in the eye, placed his open hand on his own chest, and concluded: "Just look at me.”

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

War Youth Regret Old Age