Inspirational Quotes by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez — Words of Wisdom for Daily Success

“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”

“You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio”

“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.”

“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending to all of them that they leave Macondo, that they forget everything he had taught them about the world and the human heart, that they shit on Horace, and that 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.”

“But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”