The 50 best quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Gabo was one of the most important Latin American writers, and it shows in his prose.

The name Gabriel García Márquez is widely known worldwide. We are talking about the author of such well-known works of literature as "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (his most famous work and considered one of the most important written in Spanish), "Love in the Time of Cholera" or "Chronicle of a Death Foretold", great exponents of Latin American literature and of the literary movement known as magical realism. literary movement known as magical realism, as well as one of theas well as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Throughout his career, this author has reflected diverse realities and made various reflections on many vital aspects of our daily lives. That is why in this articles we are going to see a series of quotes by Gabriel García Márquez.

50 phrases of Gabriel García Márquez

There are many topics touched by Gabriel García Márquez throughout his work, from aspects such as melancholy, the passage of time or politics. There have also been many interviews that have been made throughout his life, being able to observe different facets of his thought. In the following we will see some fifty of these reflections and thoughts.

I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you.

Love makes us see the world in a different way, makes us improve as people and makes us feel excited regardless of the characteristics of the person we love.

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

Life is hard and forces us to learn and continually reinvent ourselves in order to adapt.

3. There will always be people who hurt you so what you have to do is to keep trusting and just be more careful who you trust twice.

Getting hurt doesn't have to cause us to stop trusting the rest of the world. It should simply teach us to be more thoughtful about who we place that trust in.

4. No one should know their own meaning until they are a hundred years old

Knowing why we do things or why we are here could be useful, but it would prevent us from making mistakes, from experimenting and learning, from getting excited and, in short, from living.

5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting next to them and know that you can never have them.

A phrase that expresses the deep Pain suffered by someone whose love is not reciprocated and the longing for something that can never be.

6. I don't wish success on anyone. What happens to one is what happens to mountaineers, who kill themselves to reach the summit and when they get there, what do they do? Descend, or try to descend discreetly, with as much dignity as possible.

The author clearly expresses the fact that after reaching the summit there is only the decline, unless you find a new peak to climb. It is one of those Gabriel García Márquez's phrases in which one can notice the inspired way in which the writer mixes creativity and humor.

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

Throughout our lives we will continually encounter difficulties and obstacles that we must face in order to survive.

8. Remembering is easy for those who have memory. Forgetting is difficult for those who have a heart

A phrase in which the author reflects the difficulty of forgetting someone we have cared about.

9. Just because someone does not love you the way you want, does not mean that they do not love you with their whole being.

Each of us has our own vision of the world and of reality, including in that vision the concept of love. This is not something that is the same for everyone, existing different ways of loving.

10. A true friend is the one who takes you by the hand and touches your heart.

Friendship is another of the concepts that the author values in his work as something fundamental for our existence.

11. A man only has the right to look down on another man when he has to help him up.

A phrase that encourages us not to undervalue or consider ourselves above others.

12. She had lost in the waiting the strength of her thighs, the hardness of her breasts, the habit of tenderness, but she kept intact the madness of her heart.

This phrase expresses that love has no age: no matter how many years go by and no matter how old we are, we will continue to fall in love.

13. The prolonged captivity, the uncertainty of the world, the habit of obeying had dried up the seeds of rebellion in his heart.

If we become accustomed to not expressing what we feel or do what we want, in the long run we will acquire a passive and conformist attitude that will not allow us to change things.

14. The search for lost things is hindered by routine habits, and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

Habit and conformity to existing routines can cause us to lose our enthusiasm and desire to explore and eat up the world. the desire to explore and eat the world.

15. No adventure of the imagination has more literary value than the most insignificant episode of everyday life.

It is the small details of everyday life that mark us and give true meaning to reality. Despite everything we can imagine, it is the reality or the glimpses of it that make and enrich a great story.

16. Nostalgia, as always, had erased the bad memories and magnified the good ones.

A phrase that tells us how we tend to forget the bad of our past, often making us think of the past as something only positive and magnifying its value in contrast to the time we live in today.

17. To offer friendship to the one who seeks love is to give bread to the one who is dying of thirst.

He who loves cannot change his feelings from one day to the next. To offer him friendship can generate suffering.

18. No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

It is often assumed that rich is the one with money. However, the one who has love, friendship, culture, and feels loved and self-realized is much happier and feels truly rich.

19. Demons should not be believed even when they tell the truth.

A phrase that expresses the need for caution before the actions of those who try to take advantage of us, even if they base their actions or words on truthful elements.

20. Ultimately, literature is nothing more than carpentry. With both you work with reality, a material as hard as wood.

The author compares both types of creation, considering them similar in that they are an art in which you mold reality in order to create.

21. She begged God to grant her at least a moment so that he would not go away without knowing how much she had loved him above both their doubts, and she felt an irresistible urge to start life with him again from the beginning to tell each other all that was left unsaid, and to make right again whatever they had done wrong in the past. But he had to surrender to the intransigence of death.

This fragment from one of his works expresses the need to say and do what we think, otherwise we may forever lose the opportunity to express it.

22. The most important thing I learned to do after I was forty years old was to say no when it's no

Although we must be flexible, it is also essential to know how to defend our own position and refuse to do what we do not want to do, in order to develop ourselves and be consistent with our own thoughts.

23. Death does not come with old age, but with oblivion.

As much as our body withers and dies, we only really die when we cease to be remembered.

24. Happiness is not as they say, that it only lasts an instant and you don't know you had it but when it's over. The truth is that it lasts as long as love lasts. Because with love, even dying is good

The author expresses the importance of love, a force that allows us to have illusions, to be strong and to live and even die happily.

25. Don't try so hard, the best things happen when you least expect them.

Often, the things we desire do not arise from an incessant, hard and desperate search, but appear suddenly in our minds when we least expect them. appear suddenly in our lives if we are open to them. if we are open to them.

26. But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it is no longer of any use.

Wisdom comes with experience, with trial and error. It is frequent that we do not possess it precisely at the moment when we would need it.

27. There is no medicine that cures what happiness does not cure.

Health is not only the absence of illness, but also well-being. To be happy makes us feel good and to be able to bear with a positive point of view what life offers us.

28. Ideas do not belong to anyone

We all share the capacity to think and devise, and the contents of thought do not have a unique owner. Different people can arrive at the same conclusions from very different starting points.

29. No place is sadder than an empty bed

This phrase speaks to us of the sadness and pain caused by the longing for someone we loved and have lost.

30. Life is not taught by anyone

We can learn a lot from millions of people, but in the end each one will live his own life in a completely different way from the others. Life is not something to be learned or to be an expert in, but to be lived.

31. In reality, the only time in life when I feel I am myself is when I am with my friends.

In front of people we really trust, one can be who one really is without fear of being attacked or interpreted for it, being really free.

32. The writer writes his book to explain to himself what cannot be explained.

Literature is an art in which the writer expresses a part of his inner self, revealing aspects of what he does not know himself.Literature is an art in which the writer expresses a part of his inner self, revealing aspects of which he is often unaware until after he has reflected on it, or of which he cannot find meaning or explanation.

33. No one deserves your tears and whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

No matter how much we love someone, if he/she hurts us intentionally, he/she does not deserve us and we should not allow him/her to make us suffer.

34. You may be only one person to the world, but to one person you are the world.

A beautiful phrase that makes us think that we are all important to someone, even if we are just one more for the majority.

35. You don't eat illusion -she said- You don't eat it, but it feeds -replied the colonel.

Fragment of a conversation between two characters from "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba", in which they discuss the need for illusion and motivation.

36. Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

It is in times of pain and suffering that love takes on greater importance.

37. I will have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet in my plans.

A phrase that expresses the value of hard work, effort and motivation to work hard.effort and motivation when it comes to living.

38. But despite his immense wisdom and mysterious scope, he had a human weight, an earthly condition that kept him entangled in the minuscule problems of everyday life.

No matter how wise or important someone may be, he is still a human being with the same problems and needs as most others.

39. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after lovemaking, and has to be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

Living together and maintaining love in a relationship should not be taken for granted but requires effort on both sides.

40. Personality change is a daily struggle in which one rebels against one's own determination to change, and wants to remain oneself

This phrase by Gabriel García Márquez reflects the idea that although it is possible to change our way of being, thinking and acting, it is not easy.

41. The duty of writers is not to preserve language but to open the way for it in history.

Language evolves continuously and can vary greatly. What is really important is what it expresses.

42.When a newborn baby squeezes his father's finger with his little fist for the first time, he has trapped it forever.

The writer reflects the deep meaning and value of the first contact between a father and his child.

43. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Everything has a beginning and an end. Although it is normal to feel pain when we are talking about something positive like love, we should be grateful for having been able to live it.

44. The human body is not made for the years one could live.

A phrase that expresses that there are thousands of things that we could do, being so many possible experiences to live that they could hardly occupy a single life.

45. Things have a life of their own. It is all a matter of awakening their soul

Every little detail that we live, being that we know or even object with which we interact can have a great importance in our life and history if we want it to.

46. We have no other world to move to.

The author urges us to take care and be responsible for the world in which we live, since it is the only one we have and that those who come after us will have.

47. Intellectual creation is the most mysterious and solitary of human trades

Knowledge and the elaboration of new scientific or literary content requires effort, dedication and a great capacity for analysis and reflection, often accompanied by a certain amount of solitude.

48. Life is not what we lived, but what we remember and how we remember it in order to tell it.

Our story is not what we lived, but the synthesis we make of our life and how we organize, remember and value it.

49. There is a moment when all the obstacles collapse, all the conflicts fall away, and one comes up with things that one had not dreamed of, and then there is nothing better in life than writing.

The author reflects how sometimes inspiration to create suddenly comes to him..

50. Many years later, facing the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that remote afternoon when his father took him to see the ice.

This sentence is the one that begins the author's best known and most important work, "One Hundred Years of Solitude". It reflects the importance of memories, illusions and moments that have marked us throughout our lives until we become who we are.