Octavio Paz Quotes

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Octavio Paz

Quotes to Explore

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

Nancy Friday
- Boy
- Inside
- Little
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

Madhuri Dixit
- People
- Women
- She
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

E. F. Benson
- Growing
- Football
- Games
Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

Ed O'Brien Radiohead
- Like
- Always
- Thought
I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.

Halima Aden
- School
- Like
- Speak
However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

Walter Kohn
- World
- War
- Philosophy