Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

"Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain."

on Death

"Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain."

on Death

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

on Love

"Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future."

on Hope

"You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied."

on Hope

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

on Literature

"...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered."

on Wisdom

"Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses."

on Faith

"All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret."

on Identity

"One could be happy not only without love, but despite it."

on Love

"There is always something left to love."

on Love

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."

on Life

"I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love."

on Love

"Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget."

on Faith

"wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good."

on Wisdom