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.“

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

“I live in fear of being alive.”

“It is easier to start a war than to end it.”

“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break.”

“I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.”

“The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.”

“… my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.”

“It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much.”

“He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen, declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were overage wear red armbands. He sequestered Father Nicanor in the parish house under pain of execution and prohibited him from saying mass or ringing the bells unless it was for a Liberal victory. In order that no one would doubt the severity of his aims, he ordered a firing squad organized in the square and had it shoot a scarecrow. At first no one took him seriously.”

“Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism?
García Márquez: That's a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will probably believe you.”

“… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”

“Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.”

“He had not stopped desiring her for a single instant. He found her in the dark bedrooms of captured towns, especially in the most abject ones, and he would make her materialize in the smell of dry blood on the bandages of the wounded, in the instantaneous terror of the danger of death, at all times and in all places. He had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions at arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dunghill of war, the more the war resembled Amaranta. That was how he suffered in exile, looking for a way of killing her with his own death.”

“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”

“The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.”

“Since the appearance of visible life on Earth, 380 million years had to elapse in order for a butterfly to learn how to fly; 180 million years to create a rose with no other commitment than to be beautiful; and four geological eras in order for us human beings to be able to sing better than birds, and to be able to die from love. It is not honorable for the human talent, in the golden age of science, to have conceived the way for such an ancient and colossal process to return to the nothingness from which it came through the simple act of pushing a button.”

“Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you.”

“But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we might lose our patience but never our sense of humor.”

“I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.”

“… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.”

“Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past…”

“In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.”

“From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.”

“I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter.”

“… the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”

“In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.”

“There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a conversation.”

“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”