197 quotes found
“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...”
“Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever ex...”
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”
“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”
“Muchos aos despus, frente al pelotn de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buenda haba de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llev a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de ...”
“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”
“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
“She clung to her husband. And it was just at the time when he needed her most, because he suffered the disadvantage of being ten years ahead of her as he stumbled alone through the mists of old age...”
“But in those solitary Masses they began to be aware that once again they were mistresses of their fate, after having renounced not only their family name but their own identity in exchange for a se...”
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
“I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading.”
“four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.”
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
“That night in Cartagena he again requested the songs of his youth, some so old he had to teach them to Iturbide, who was too young to remember them. The audience slipped away as the General bled in...”
“I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.”
“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
