Octavio Paz Love Quotations

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.

To love is to undress our names.

Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.

Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.

Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.