“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”

“In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

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

“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”

“All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera”

“races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”