“Men are sheep. Which is why armies and wars are possible. They die victims of their stupid docility.”

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”

“He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.”

“Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours...”

“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.~Jose Aracadio Segundo BuendiaAfter the second banana slaughter ”

“If you really want to know about life, just take time and listen to what the dying say.”

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”