Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes have the ability to move, to inspire and engage. The Colombian author’s work has moved generations of people to write and travel, and I can say for me personally, he inspired me to live in Colombia. Here are just a handful of Gabriel Garcia Marquez quotes that I personally love, and if you’ve yet to read any of his works, do yourself a favour and get reading!
1. “No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.” ― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
2. “Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.” ― Love in the Time of Cholera
3. “No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.” ― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
4. “I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.” ― Love in the Time of Cholera
5. “The day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole” ― The Autumn of the Patriarch
6. “A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
7. “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
8. “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
9. “There is always something left to love.” ― One Hundred Years of Solitude
10. “Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” ― Gabriel García Márquez
11. “Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” ― Love in the Time of Cholera
12. “‘The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.'” ― Gabriel García Márquez
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