« All Next Room Quotes
·
Octavio Paz's Page
Next Room Quotes by Octavio Paz
1 Next Room quote by Octavio Paz
More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours…
-
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and…
-
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
-
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only…
-
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
-
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost…
-
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a…
-
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…
-
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
-
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an…
-
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
-
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing…
See all 81 quotes by Octavio Paz »
More Next Room Quotes
Popular Next Room quotes from across the collection:
-
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,…
— Chinua Achebe
-
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
-
The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
— J. B. Priestley
-
I have only slipped away into the next room, I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other,…
— Henry Scott Holland
-
Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
— Henry Scott Holland
-
Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.
— Joanna Lumley
-
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
— Max Eastman
-
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly…
— George Steiner
-
Sitting down and weeping is what women have done for centuries, and it has done no good at all. Nor praying. God…
— Sheri S. Tepper
-
I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by…
— Amy Hempel
-
It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy…
— Ben Marcus
-
Couple in the next room bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
— Paul Simon
See all Next Room Quotes »
Browse Octavio Paz Quotes by Category