Gabriel García Márquez

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“Freedom is often the first casualty of war.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

"Old people, with other old people, are not so old."

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)

We'll grow old waiting.

—Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014)