Quote

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age: 87 †
Born: 1927
Born: March 6
Died: 2014
Died: April 17
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Publisher
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
LA
California
Gabriel José García Márquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Jose Garcia Marquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez
Gabriel Jose de la Concordia Garcia Marquez
Everyday
Empty
Eternal
Universe
Reality
Love
Remained
Floating

More quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Image
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Inspiration gives no warnings.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
Do not allow me to forget you
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Image
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez