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“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.” (One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes)
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people, they kept on blooming like little children and playing like dogs.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“There is always something left to love.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
“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.”
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
