Quotes by Mexican Authors

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.
Frida Kahlo
While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the United States, a series that would constitute a new kind of plastic poem, depicting in color and form the story of each industry and its division of labor. Dr. Valentiner was keenly interested, considering my idea a potential base for a new school of modern art in America, as related to the social structure of American life as the art of the Middle Ages had been related to medieval society.
Diego Rivera
The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
Frida Kahlo
Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.
James Carlos Blake
I really admired Cesar Chavez and Gandhi, but my form of activism would have to be the written word, not the empty stomach. My parents had brought my family t the United States because of the fear of empty stomachs.
Josefina López
We felt as though we had a responsibility to do something about it. So, we did.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.
Guillermo del Toro
…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)
Carlos Fuentes
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
Girls are much more psychic than guys. They're the first to know if you're going to get laid.
Paul Rodriguez
Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.
Mariano Azuela
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today.
Octavio Paz
Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.
Mariano Azuela
Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.
Carlos Fuentes
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today.
Octavio Paz
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them.
Octavio Paz
Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.
Porfirio Diaz
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
Carlos Fuentes
One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
Carlos Santana
Peace can't be forced, only discovered from within
Héctor Martínez
To be sorry you hurt me is not enough for me to forgive you.
Adi Alsaid
Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.
Juan Rulfo
I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.
Luis Buñuel
Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.
James Carlos Blake
Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.
Jorge Ramos
Watching a movie for the first time is a flirt. Rewatching it, is a date.
Guillermo del Toro
And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?...I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think." (p. 31)
Sabina Berman
Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.
Miguel Ruiz
Sometimes, watching a movie is a bit like being raped.
Luis Buñuel
A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.
Sofia Reyes
if you want to be understood ...Listen.
Alejandro González Iñárritu
The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. Knitting allowed her to unite, to connect, to integrate. With every stitch she held on to dear life. Threads hold us together.
Laura Esquivel
God is an energy, rather than an anthropomorphic being, and God's language is biology. Red blood cells, the principle of magnetic attraction, neurological synapse: each is a miracle, and in each is the presence and flow of God.
Guillermo del Toro
The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.
Luis Buñuel
What she liked the most about drinking was not being present, that feeling of self-evasion, of disconnection, of liberation, of escape. Alcohol offered her an excellent alternative to being herself without actually dying.
Laura Esquivel
I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And in that world I am the person I like to be.
Dora Musielak
If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.
Luis Buñuel
The Invisible World reveals to us this Truth within its silence.
Jacqueline Ripstein
The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons. The first hard freeze cast the countryside in ice and trees split open with sounds like whipcracks. Came a snow flurry one night and then a heavy falling the next day, and that evening the land lay white and still under a high ivory moon.
James Carlos Blake
They loved the sea. They taught themselves to sail, to navigate and read the weather. Without their mother's knowledge and long before she thought them old enough to sail outside the harbor, they were piloting their catboat all the way to the Isles of Shoals. They were on the return leg of one such excursion when the fickle weather of early spring took an abrupt turn and the sky darkened and the sun vanished and the wind came squalling off the open sea. They were a half mile from the harbor when the storm overtook them. The rain struck in a slashing torrent and the swells hove them so high they felt they might be sent flying--then dropped them into troughs so deep they could see nothing but walls of water the color of iron. They feared the sail would be ripped away. Samuel Thomas wrestled the tiller and John Roger bailed in a frenzy and both were wide-eyed with euphoric terror as time and again they were nearly capsized before at last making the harbor. When they got home and Mary Margaret saw their sodden state she scolded them for dunces and wondered aloud how they could do so well in their schooling when they didn't have sense enough to get out of the rain.
James Carlos Blake
Normality; show me normality, señor caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.
Carlos Fuentes
privation is the cause of appetite
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
José Emilio Pacheco
If dual torment is to be my one condition,both of loving and being loved I would quit.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
I mean to tell you, the Law's notion of justice is more cold-blooded than any outlaw I ever knew. And I mean 'outlaw,' not criminal. 'Criminal' doesn't distinguish between guys like men and the guys who own the banks and insurance companies and stock markets, who own the factories and coal mines and oil fields, who own the goddamn Law. I once said to John that being an outlaw was about the only way left for a man to hold on to his self-respect, and he said Ain't that the sad truth. The girls laughed along with us because they knew it wasn't a joke.... John got the publicity because he loved it ... he carried on like the whole thing was an adventure movie and he was Douglas Fairbanks. He wanted to to be a 'star.' That's how he was. Not me. I never even liked having my picture taken. All I ever wanted was to show the bastards who own the law that it didn't mean they owned me.
James Carlos Blake
Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of.[2000]
Chavela Vargas
The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.
Adi Alsaid
You will always find me behind the line of the Horizon
Fernando González y Lozano
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.
James Carlos Blake
You've been dreaming lies again, Susana.
Juan Rulfo
There you'll find the place I love most in the world. The place where I grew thin from dreaming. My village, rising from the plain. Shaded with trees and leaves like a piggy bank filled with memories. You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the air. The air changes the color of things there. And life whirs by as quiet as a murmur...the pure murmuring of life.
Juan Rulfo
Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.
Carlos Salinas
I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?
Carlos Salinas
Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.
Guillermo del Toro
We don’t see the truth because we are blind. What blinds us are all those false beliefs we have in our mind. We have the need to be right and to make others wrong. We trust what we believe, and our beliefs set us up for suffering.
Miguel Ruiz
If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.
James Carlos Blake
I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.
Cesar Millan
Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations.
Cesar Millan