“No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.” HumansDreamDesireNightHuman BeingsAchieveThis LifeGood Night Author:Jose Saramago
“Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.” HumansHuman NatureMouthsDefinitionsIncapableClosingTalkative Author:Jose Saramago
“A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.” HumansStatesHuman BeingsFashionDestructionConstantConstructionParallelsParallel UniverseUnder Construction Author:Jose Saramago
“I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.” WayWritingHumansLiteratureDoubtPositiveMaterialsHeroModelsUncertaintyProductiveCopiesExhaustedAppreciatedClicheRaw MaterialsPerplexity Author:Jose Saramago
“Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.” HumansStillsFeltKnowingCapableCommunicateVocabularyRecognizing Author:Jose Saramago
“What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?” WorldHumansKindDoeHuman BeingsMachinesKillingMarsColonizing Mars Author:Jose Saramago
“We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.” HumansMayHandsKnownDyingFineSpeciesPhenomenonHuman Species Author:Jose Saramago
“Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.” LoveFeelsTryingHumansAgePracticeCommunicationSpeechIllusionDefinitionsTongueDefectsHuman Experience Author:Jose Saramago
“The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.” PeopleWorldMindHumansSometimesUseRealitySpiritHuman BeingsTroubleWeakConfusedJustifyCowardiceAdjusting Author:Jose Saramago
“For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.” HumansBodyLightBornShadowIncapableExplainingOpaque Author:Jose Saramago
“I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.” HumansBookSometimesCharacterHelpingSpiritCertainStarsWalksPoetPagesScientistBe GoodEveningAspirationDeep Within Author:Jose Saramago
“...the human being to lack that second skin we call egoism has not yet been born, it lasts much longer than the other one, that bleeds so readily.” HumansLastsBornHuman BeingsSkinsEgoism Author:Jose Saramago
“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.” IfsHumansHuman BeingsAnimal Author:Jose Saramago
