"Art is what remains of religion: the dance……" — Octavio Paz

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss. - Octavio Paz

"Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss."

— Octavio Paz

Above Quotes Abyss Quotes Art Quotes Art Is Quotes Dance Quotes Dance Above Quotes Religion Quotes Remains Quotes Yawning Quotes Yawning Abyss Quotes

80 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has 80 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…
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
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…
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes…
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
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…
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity.…

See all 80 quotes by Octavio Paz »

More Abyss Quotes

This quote is filed under Abyss Quotes, one of 356 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. — Honore de Balzac
The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective… — Tammy Bruce
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies… — Joseph Campbell
Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity. — Sally-Ann Roberts
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged… — Lewis Mumford
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come… — Felix Dennis
If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure… — A. E. Housman
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand… — Winston Churchill
Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those… — Bertolt Brecht
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the… — Thomas Huxley

See all 356 Abyss Quotes »