Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

Gabriel García Márquez · Living to Tell the Tale (2002), epigraph

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Gabriel García Márquez · Quoted in Gerald Martin, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life (2008)

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.

Often credited to Gabriel García Márquez · From "La Marioneta," the fake farewell letter that went round the world under his name in 2000; it was written by the Mexican ventriloquist Johnny Welch for his puppet, and García Márquez disowned it.

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

Gabriel García Márquez · One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

More Life Quotes

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

Albert Einstein · From a tribute to Paul Langevin, 1947.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · The source reads: “Into each life some rain must fall, / Some days must be dark and dreary.” · From the poem "The Rainy Day"; the next line is "some days must be dark and dreary."

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.

Albert Einstein · The opening of What I Believe, 1930.

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“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”

“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”

“Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.”

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

“Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at its conclusion it may appear as a work of art?”

“Into each life some rain must fall.”

“Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men.”