One Hundred Years Of Solitude Quotes

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

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

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

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.

Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

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.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

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