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Famous Jose Saramago Quotes
“Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.”
“The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.”
“Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.”
“Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.”
“Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.”
“The possibility of the impossible, dreams and illusions, are the subject of my novels.”
“That it's possible not to see a lie even when it's in front of us.”
“Writer's make national literature, while translators make universal literature.”
“That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody.'”
“Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.”
“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
“The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.”
“I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.”
“In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.”
“The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.”
“There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”
“I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement.”