“And it is significant that a country as sorrowful as ours should have so many and such joyous fiestas. Their frequency, their brilliance and excitement, the enthusiasm with which we take part, all suggest that without them we would explode.” JoySadSolitudeMexicoFiestaOctavio Paz Book:Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico Source: Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico
“After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all the pits with poisoned water; after building my house on the rock of a No inaccessible to flattery and fear; after cutting out my tongue and eating it; after hurling handfuls of silence and monosyllables of scorn at my loves; after forgetting my name and the name of my birthplace and the name of my race; after judging and sentencing myself to perpetual waiting and perpetual loneliness, I heard against the stones of my dungeon of syllogisms the humid, tender, insistent onset of spring.” Solitude Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.” LifeDeathSolitude Author:Octavio Paz
“Pero su recuerdo no me abandona. Quien ha visto la Esperanza, no la olvida. La busca bajo todos los cielos y entre todos los hombres. Y sueña que un día va a encontrarla de nuevo, no sabe dónde, acaso entre los suyos. En cada hombre late la posibilidad de ser o, más exactamente, de volver a ser, otro hombre.” HopeSolitude Author:Octavio Paz
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.” KnowsMenHumansFactsConditionsLonelinessSolitudeHuman ConditionBeing AloneLoneliness And SolitudeOne Tree Hill VoiceoverOne Tree Hill OpeningShort One Tree HillAlone Man Author:Octavio Paz
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.” IfsKnowsMenHumansFactsUsedRealizingConditionsSolitudeLongingNostalgiaHuman ConditionCommunionAnother ManSaying No Author:Octavio Paz
“Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.” MenFeelsHumansLyingConditionsAdventureSolitudeDepthHuman ConditionLowest Author:Octavio Paz
