Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes About Age
-
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
→ -
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.
→ -
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
→ -
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.
→ -
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.
→ -
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
→ -
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
→ -
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.
→ -
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
→ -
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera
→ -
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
→
Related Authors
-
Isabel Allende Writer -
William Faulkner Writer -
Paulo Coelho Lyricist -
William Shakespeare Poet -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Mario Benedetti Journalist -
Gabriela Mistral Poet -
Julio Cortazar Novelist -
Ernest Hemingway Author -
Octavio Paz Poet -
Juan Rulfo Writer -
Pablo Neruda Senator of Chile -
Jorge Luis Borges Writer -
Mario Vargas Llosa Writer -
Eduardo Galeano Journalist -
Miguel de Cervantes Novelist -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Jose Emilio Pacheco Poet -
-
Carlos Fuentes Novelist