Gabriel García Márquez Zitate

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„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.“

“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.”

“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.”

“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”

“An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.”

“And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.”

“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”

“The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.”

“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.”

“This soup tastes like windows”

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”

“The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.”

“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.”

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.”

“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”

“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.”

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

“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

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

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”

“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.”

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

“It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.”

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

“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”

“In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”