Gabriel García Márquez

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“A person doesn't die when they should but when they can.”

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

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

“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

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

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.”

“There is always something left to love.”

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

“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.”

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

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

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

“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.”