Quotes by Colombian Authors - Page 6

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.
Gabriel García Márquez
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
Gabriel García Márquez
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
Gabriel García Márquez
The particular creature we love is never God’s rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.
Laura Busche
You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio
Gabriel García Márquez
We need patient people who are able to endure the toughest disciplines.
Samael Aun Weor
t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirredthe certainty of death in the depths of one’s soul.
Gabriel García Márquez
..."la ficción es casi siempre copia de la realidad, o es exageración de la misma, o disimulo de lo que si ha ocurrido".
Héctor Abad Faciolince
To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.
Gabriel García Márquez
I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my suppressed rage, that I am punctual only only to hide how little I care about other peoples time.
Gabriel García Márquez
four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
Gabriel García Márquez
To be right is just one more reason not to achieve any success.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Being a reactionary is not about believing in certain solutions, but about having an acute sense of the complexity of the problems.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.
Gabriel García Márquez
There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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.
Gabriel García Márquez
I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.
Laura Restrepo
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.
Gabriel García Márquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
Gabriel García Márquez
She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death.
Gabriel García Márquez
While a person does not give up on sex sex does not give up on the person.
Gabriel García Márquez
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
Gabriel García Márquez
Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs.
Samael Aun Weor
Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel García Márquez
It is impossible to convince the fool that there are pleasures superior to those we share with the rest of the animals.
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
The privilege is not writing a novel, it's to have someone read it. When you look at it that way, you realize the responsibility you have to put your very best on the page.
Javier A. Robayo
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.
Gabriel García Márquez
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel García Márquez
There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.
Gabriel García Márquez
If building a disruptive, dynamic brand is not in your plans, neither is profit.
Laura Busche
Do not confuse location with direction. Location is where you are, direction is where you are going.
Laura Busche
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
Gabriel García Márquez
From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.
Nina García
At age 13, I was violently mugged at a busy train station. There were dozens of onlookers, but none of them lent a hand ... That was a defining point in that stage of my life. After that, I could never tell myself that it was someone else's problem, or let a situation pass me by if I felt something had to be done. I knew from experience that all too often, no one else would act.
Adrián Lamo
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
Gabriel García Márquez
Intrigued by that enigma, 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.
Gabriel García Márquez
The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.
Gabriel García Márquez
literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.
Gabriel García Márquez
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Gabriel García Márquez
I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.
Gabriel García Márquez
Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly -
Gabriel García Márquez
Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, the afternoon and almost the whole night until dawn...
Samael Aun Weor