José Arcadio Buendía

"Wars are good business."

"The secret of good health is to eat light and leave the table while still hungry."

"The only way to live is by forgetting"

"Everything that exists in the world is one thing and another thing is the opposite"

"No, not crazy. I'm not crazy. The only thing I know is that I'm thirsty and no one in this whole cursed town can give me water"

"The most important discoveries come from those willing to go mad in their pursuit"

"Some dreams are worth pursuing even if they lead to destruction"

"A man should never trust his own memory because it will deceive him"

"The line between madness and genius is thinner than we believe"

"Nothing was true until it had been recorded in writing."

"The gypsies had promised him that he would find paradise on earth."

"The more you read, the less you understand the world."

"Science and religion are two sides of the same coin."

"The mind creates its own prisons."

"One does not allow oneself to be betrayed by one's own heart."

"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."

"We are all searching for something that was lost long ago."

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

"I learned that the world was round, like an orange, and most important of all, that it had nothing to do with the place where I lived."

"The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name."

"The world is certainly full of defects, which in my humble opinion were all the result of impossible collisions between our chimera and events."

"They really had been through death, but they had returned because they could not bear the solitude"

"The world is surely round and people are wearing out their shoes walking around it."

"A human being is not entitled to abandon hope, no matter the circumstances."

"The world is certainly round."

"The only real thing is that I exist."

"The secret of a good old age is simply an agreement between the body and the soul to die at the same time."

"The world is certainly round, but nobody knows what shape it really is"

"No matter how strong you are, you cannot live without loving or being loved."