Morality, too, is a question of time.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.