"One Hundred Years of Solitude" Quotes

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

He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

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

The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.

The world is round so that nobody can hide in the corners; you have to keep going.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.

It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.

He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

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

Races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.