Gabriel García Márquez Quote

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell the tale.

The memory of the heart erases bad memories and magnifies the good ones, and thanks to that artifice, we manage to cope with the past.

Gabriel García Márquez

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Gabriel García Márquez

One must be unfaithful, but never disloyal.

Gabriel García Márquez

The day that shit has any value, the poor will be born without an ass.

Gabriel García Márquez

No place in life is sadder than an empty bed.

Gabriel García Márquez

The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them and knowing you can never have them.

Gabriel García Márquez

Life is the best thing that has ever been invented.

Gabriel García Márquez

Human beings are not born forever on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life compels them to give birth to themselves again and again.

Gabriel García Márquez

The secret to a good old age is nothing more than an honest pact with solitude.

Gabriel García Márquez

Life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities to survive.

Gabriel García Márquez

The most important thing I learned to do after the age of forty was to say no when it is no.

Gabriel García Márquez

It puzzles me as much to think that God exists as it does to think that God doesn't exist.

Gabriel García Márquez