Gabriel Garcia Marquez People Quotations

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.

it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.