Gabriel García Márquez Zitate

„Sex ist der Trost, den Sie haben, wenn Sie keine Liebe haben können.“

„Alle Menschen haben drei Leben: öffentlich, privat und geheim.“

„Was im Leben zählt, ist nicht, was mit dir passiert, sondern woran du dich erinnerst und wie du dich daran erinnerst.“

„Keiner verdient deine Träne, denn der, der sie verdienen würde, würde dich nie zum weinen bringen.“

„Ein wahrer Freund ist der, der deine Hand nimmt, aber dein Herz berührt.“

„Das einzige Bedauern, das ich im Sterben haben werde, ist, wenn es nicht für die Liebe ist.“

„Sie würde sich verteidigen und sagen, dass Liebe, egal was auch immer, ein natürliches Talent sei. Sie würde sagen: Du wirst entweder geboren, wenn du weißt wie, oder du weißt es nie.“

„Es ist genug für mich, um sicher zu sein, dass du und ich in diesem Moment existieren.“

„Keine Medizin heilt, was Glück nicht kann.“

„DAS MEER DER VERLORENEN ZEIT: "Gegen Ende Januar wurde das Meer wieder rauh, begann das Dorf mit einem Haufen Unrat zu überschütten, und wenige Wochen später war von der unerträglichen Laune des Meeres alles vergiftet. Danach blieb die Welt sinnlos, zumindest bis zum nächsten Dezember, und niemand war nach acht Uhr noch wach. Doch in dem Jahr, als Señor Herbert kam, erzürnte sich das Meer nicht, nicht einmal im Februar. Im Gegenteil, es wurde immer glatter und schillernder und verströmte in den ersten Märznächten Rosenduft."“

„Als jemand ihm vorwarf, reich zu sein, definierte er es besser als jeder andere: "Nein, nicht reich", sagte er, "ich bin ein armer Schlucker mit Geld, und das ist nicht dasselbe.“

„Er war noch zu jung, um zu wissen, dass das Gedächtnis des Herzens das Böse beseitigt und das Gute vergrößert und dass wir dank dieses Kunstgriffs die Last der Vergangenheit ertragen können.“

„Sag ihm ja. Selbst wenn Sie vor Angst sterben, auch wenn es Ihnen später leid tut, denn was auch immer Sie tun, es wird Ihnen den Rest Ihres Lebens leid tun, wenn Sie Nein sagen.“

„Weisheit kommt zu uns, wenn sie nichts mehr nützen kann.“

“The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”

“They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.”

“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”

“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“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.”

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”

“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

“The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”

“Do not allow me to forget you”

“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”

“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.”

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”

“his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.”

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”

“Carmelita Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves over Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano Jose had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”

“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.”

“There is always something left to love.”

“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”