Octavio Paz Quotes
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
-
I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.
-
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
-
I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
-
When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
-
The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
-
The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
-
I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
-
As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
-
I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
-
Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
-
I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
-
I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
-
Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
-
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
-
I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
-
Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
-
Look, you need technical skills to run a company.
-
As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
-
'You, Aubrey, are my most complete man. You're a brave, compassionate, kind and content, man. That's your secret—contentment. I'm 24 and I've never known it. I'm forever in pursuit and I don't even know what it is I'm chasing.
-
A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
-
Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
-
But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.
-
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
