Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez ( American Spanish: [ 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on, he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo.(From Wikipedia)
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ QUOTES
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but … life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“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.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.” Gabriel García Márquez
“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Don’t struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Do not allow me to forget you” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don’t cry because it is over… smile because it happened.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“All my life, I’ve been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“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.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
“There is always something left to love.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
