The 50 best phrases of Gabriel García Márquez
The name of Gabriel García Márquez is widely known worldwide. We are talking about the author of such well-known works of literature as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (his most famous work and considered one of the most important written in Castilian), "Love in times of cholera" or "Chronicle of an announced death", great exponents of Latin American literature and of literary movement known as magic realism, as well as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Throughout his career, this author has reflected various realities and made various reflections on many vital aspects in our day to day. That is why in this article we are going to see a series of phrases by Gabriel García Márquez.
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50 phrases by Gabriel García Márquez
There are many themes touched by Gabriel García Márquez throughout his work, from aspects such as melancholy, the passage of time or politics. Likewise, there have been multiple interviews that have been carried out throughout his life, being able to observe different facets of his thinking. We'll see now
about fifty such reflections and thoughts.1. I love you not for who you are but for who I am when I'm with you
Love makes us see the world differently, it makes us improve as people and feel excited regardless of the characteristics of the person we love.
2. Human beings are not born forever the day their mothers give birth to them, but life forces them to give birth to themselves over and over again
Life is hard and it forces us to Learn andcontinually reinvent ourselves in order to adapt.
3. There will always be people who hurt you so what you have to do is keep trusting and just be more careful who you trust twice
Being hurt doesn't have to cause us to stop trusting the rest of the world. It simply must teach us to reflect more on who we grant that trust.
4. No one should know their meaning until they have reached one hundred years
Knowing why we do things or why we are here could be useful, but it would prevent make mistakes, experiment and learn, get excited and, ultimately, we lived.
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5. The worst way to miss someone is to sit next to them and know that you can never have them.
Phrase that expresses the deep pain suffered by someone whose love is unrequited and the longing for something that can never be.
6. I do not wish success to anyone. What happens to you is what the mountaineers kill themselves to reach the top and when they get there, what do they do? Get off, or try to get off discreetly, with as much dignity as possible
The author clearly expresses the fact that after reaching the top only the decline remains, unless a new summit is found to climb. It is one of those phrases by Gabriel García Márquez that shows the inspired way in which the writer mixes creativity and humor.
7. Life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities to survive
Throughout our lives we will continually encounter difficulties and obstacles that we must face in order to survive.
8. Remembering is easy for those who have memory. Forgetting is difficult for those who have a heart
Phrase in which the author reflects the difficulty of forgetting someone who has mattered to us.
9. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want it doesn't mean they don't love you with their whole being
Each of us has our own vision of the world and of reality, including in this vision the concept of love. This is not something that is the same for everyone, there are different ways of wanting.
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10. A true friend is the one who takes your hand and touches your heart
Friendship is another of the concepts that the author values in his work as something fundamental to our existence.
11. A man only has the right to look down on another when he has to help him up.
Phrase that encourages not to underestimate or consider yourself above others.
12. In waiting she had lost the strength of her thighs, the hardness of her breasts, the habit of tenderness, but she kept intact the madness of her heart.
This phrase expresses that love has no age: for many years that pass and no matter how old we are, we will continue to fall in love.
13. The prolonged captivity, the uncertainty of the world, the habit of obeying had dried the seeds of rebellion in his heart.
If we get used to not expressing what we feel or do what we want, in the long run we will acquire a passive and conformist attitude that will not allow us to change things.
14. The search for lost things is hampered by routine habits, and that is why it takes so much work to find them
Habit and conformity with existing routines can cause us to lose enthusiasm and the desire to explore and eat the world.
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15. No adventure of the imagination has more literary value than the most insignificant episode of everyday life.
The small details of the day to day are what mark us and give authentic meaning to reality. Despite everything we can imagine, it is reality or the hints of it that make and enrich a great story.
16. Nostalgia, as always, had erased the bad memories and magnified the good ones.
Phrase that tells us how we tend to forget the bad things of our past, making us often think about it passed as something only positive and magnifying its value in contrast to the time we live in the present.
17. Offering friendship to those who seek love is to give bread to those who are dying of thirst
He who loves cannot change his feelings from one day to the next. Offering him friendship can cause suffering.
18. No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same
It is often assumed that rich is the one with money. However, he is much happier and he feels really rich the one who has love, friendship, culture and feels loved and self-realized.
19. Demons should not be believed even when they tell the truth
Phrase that he expresses the need for caution in the face of the actions of those who intend to take advantage of one, even if they base their actions or words on truthful elements.
20. Ultimately literature is nothing more than carpentry. With both you work with reality, a material as hard as wood
The author compares both types of creation, considering them similar to being an art in which to mold reality to create.
21. He begged God to grant him at least a moment so that he would not leave without knowing how much he had loved him beyond their doubts, and he felt an urgency irresistible to start life with him again from the beginning to tell each other everything that was left unsaid, and to do well whatever they had done wrong in the past. But she had to surrender to the intransigence of death
This fragment of one of his works expresses the need to say and do what we think, otherwise we may lose forever the opportunity to express it.
22. The most important thing I learned to do after forty years was to say no when it is no.
Although we must be flexible, it is also essential to know how to defend one's position and refuse to do what we do not want, to be able to develop and be consistent with our own thoughts.
23. Death does not come with old age, but with oblivion
As much as our bodies wither and die, we only really die when we are no longer remembered.
24. Happiness is not as they say, it only lasts for an instant and it is not known what was had until when it was over. The truth is that it lasts as long as love lasts. Because with love, even dying is good
The author expresses the importance that love gives it, a force that allows us to be excited, to be strong and to live and even die happy.
25. Don't try so hard, the best things happen when you least expect them
Often times, the things we desire do not arise from an incessant, toiling and desperate search but appear suddenly in our lives if we are open to them.
26. But if they had learned something together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it is no longer good for anything.
Wisdom comes with experience, with trial and error. It is common that we do not possess it precisely at the moment when we would need it.
27. There is no medicine that cures what happiness does not cure
Health is not only the absence of disease, but also well-being. Being happy makes us feel good and be able to bear with a positive point of view what life gives us.
28. Ideas belong to nobody
The ability to think and to imagine is shared by all, and the contents of thought do not have a single owner. Different people can reach the same conclusions from very different starting points.
29. No place is sadder than an empty bed
This phrase tells us about the sadness and pain caused by longing for someone we loved and have lost.
30. Life is not taught by anyone
We can learn a lot from millions of people, but in the end each one is going to live their own life in a completely different way from the others. Life is not something that is learned or of which someone can be an expert, but it must be lived.
31. Actually, the only time in life I feel like being myself is when I'm with my friends.
In front of people in whom we really trust one can be who he really is without fear of being attacked or interpreted for it, being really free.
32. The writer writes his book to explain to himself what cannot be explained
Literature is an art in which the person who performs it expresses a part of their interior, revealing aspects of which he is often not aware until after having reflected it or of which he cannot find meaning or explanation.
33. No person deserves your tears and whoever deserves them will not make you cry
As much as we love someone, if he intentionally hurts us, he does not deserve us and we should not allow him to make us suffer.
34. You can only be one person for the world, but for some person you are the world
Beautiful phrase that makes us think that we are all important to someone, no matter how much we are one more for the majority.
35. Illusion is not eaten, "she said." It is not eaten, but it feeds, "replied the colonel.
Fragment of a conversation between two characters from "The colonel has no one to write to him", in which they discuss the need to get excited and motivated.
36. Love grows greater and nobler in calamity
It is in moments of pain and suffering that love becomes more important.
37. I will have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet in my projects
Phrase in which the value of hard work is expressed, the effort and motivation when living.
38. But despite his immense wisdom and his mysterious realm, he had a human weight, an earthly condition that kept him entangled in the miniscule problems of everyday life.
No matter how wise or important someone is, they are still a human being with the same problems and the same needs as most others.
39. The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and you have to rebuild it every morning before breakfast.
Living together and maintaining love In a relationship it should not be taken for granted but requires an effort on both sides.
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40. Personality change is a daily struggle in which you rebel against your own determination to change, and want to remain yourself
This phrase by Gabriel García Márquez reflects the idea that although it is possible to change one's way of being, thinking and acting, it is not easy.
41. The duty of writers is not to preserve language but to make its way through history.
Language is continually evolving and can vary greatly. What is really important is what it expresses.
42. When a newborn squeezes his father's finger with his little fist for the first time, he has it trapped forever
The writer reflects the deep meaning and value of the first contact between a father and his son.
43. Do not cry because it's over, smile because it happened
Everything has a beginning and an end. Even if it is normal to feel pain When faced with the latter, when we are talking about something positive such as love, we must be grateful for having been able to live it.
44. The human body is not made for the years one could live
The phrase that he expresses that there are thousands of things that we could do, with so many possible experiences to live that they could hardly occupy a single life.
45. Things have a life of their own. It's all a matter of waking up the soul
Every little detail that we live, being that we know or even object with which we interact can have a great importance in our life and history if we want it.
46. We have no other world to move to
The author pushes us to take care of and be responsible for the world in which we live, since he is the only one we have and that those who come later will have.
47. Intellectual creation is the most mysterious and lonely of human trades
Knowing and developing new scientific or literary content requires effort, dedication and a great deal of capacity for analysis and reflection, often accompanied by a certain dose of loneliness.
48. Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it to tell it
Our history is not what we live, but the synthesis we make of our life and how we organize, remember and value it.
49. There is a moment when all obstacles collapse, all conflicts fall away, and one comes up with things that he had not dreamed of, and then there is nothing better in life than writing.
The author reflects how sometimes the inspiration to create.
50. Many years later, in front of the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía had to remember that remote afternoon when his father took him to see the ice
This phrase is the one that begins the best known and most important work of the author, "One Hundred Years of Solitude." It reflects the importance of memories, illusions and moments that have marked us throughout our lives to make us who we are.