Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
Never stop smiling, not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.
It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
Inspiration gives no warnings.
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.