One hundred years of solitude Quotes

“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.”

“Children inherit their parents' madness.”

“Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.”

“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”

“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. "What worries me," he went on, "is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.”

“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment.”

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

“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”

“...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.”