“[...] For the first time she asked herself if she has some good reason for wanting to go on living. She should find no reply, replies do not always come when needed, and it often happens that the only possible reply is to wait for them.” InspirationalWaitingSadLivingBlindBlindness Book:Blindness Source: Blindness
“... that destiny has to make many turnings before arriving anywhere, destiny alone knows what it has cost ...” DestinyBlindnessIt S The Journey Book:Blindness Source: Blindness
“That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.” LifeDeathBlindness Book:Blindness Source: Blindness
“if before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.” BlindnessSaramagoConcious Book:Blindness Source: Blindness
“Não é só a voz do sangue que não precisa de olhos, o amor, que dizem ser cego, também tem a sua palavra a dizer” LoveAmorBlindnessSaramagoJosé SaramagoEnsaio Sobre A Cegueira Book:Blindness Source: Blindness
“[...]certainly not one of them would have known what to reply if they had been asked, Why are you holding hands as you go, it simply came about, there are gestures for which we cannot always find an easy explanation, sometimes not even a difficult one can be found.” BlindnessJosé Saramago Book:Blindness Source: Blindness
“Confidential matters are not dealt with over the telephone, you'd better come here in person. I cannot leave the house, Do you mean you're ill, Yes, I'm ill, the blind man said after a pause. In that case you ought to call a doctor, a real doctor, quipped the functionary, and, delighted with his own wit, he rang off. The man's insolence was like a slap in the face. Only after some minutes had passed, had he regained enough composure to tell his wife how rudely he had been treated. Then, as if he had discovered something that he should have known a long time ago, he murmured sadly, This is the stuff we're made of, half indifference and half malice.” IndifferenceBureaucracyBlindnessMalice Book:Blindness Source: Blindness