"he dared to explore her withered neck..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
More on Aging
“The path to youth takes a lifetime.”
“As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.”
“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”
More on Body
“The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything.”
“You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself. Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.”
“The mind & body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs & music.”