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Gabriel García Márquez was one of the most prolific writers in the Spanish language and has been dubbed as “the greatest living novelist,” “the most widely-read writer in the world,” and is commonly ranked among the world’s top 100 most influential people.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was born on March 6, 1927, in Aracataca, Colombia. He began his writing career at an early age with short stories. As a young man, he moved to Bogota, where he published several articles in local newspapers. In 1948, he published One Hundred Years of Solitude. He had written extensively during his time as a reporter for many different publications, including Estado de Síntesis, El Espectador newspaper, and Hora Cero radio station.
He is considered one of the best-selling and most influential Latin American authors of all time. If you want to be successful and find inspiration, these inspirational quotes will give you that boost.
39 Most Famous Gabriel García Márquez Quote
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.”
“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.”
“Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”
“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
“He who awaits much can expect little.”
“Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.”
“The day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole”
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you, but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“Life is the best thing that has ever been invented.”
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”
“To oppression… we respond with life.”
“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
“If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”
“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”
“The only thing that comes for sure is death, colonel.”
“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it”
“There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
“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.”
“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
“It’s much more important to write than to be written about.”
“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”
“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”
“Necessity has the face of a dog.”
“The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”
“There is always something left to love.”
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” “I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.”
