just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
we would understand much more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to an assiduous study of its contradictions, instead of wasting… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“...it is an archive...You probably get rooms like this in even the most modern of offices, like a rusty anchor chained to… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Put less respectfully, these men and women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. At four o'clock in the morning, when… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Cain considers life and can find no explanation for it, there is that woman, who although clearly sick with desire is enjoying… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“There are such moments in life: one unexpectedly discovers that perfection exists, that it, too, is a tiny sphere traveling in time,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Não aprendeste nada, vai-te, dissera o Pastor, e quiçá quisesse dizer que ele não aprendera a defender a vida.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“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… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“...life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a… — José Saramago Copy Share
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“E se as histórias para crianças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que há… — José Saramago Copy Share
“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we shall be… — José Saramago Copy Share
“Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into… — José Saramago Copy Share
...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system… — Jose Saramago Copy Share
“... aborrece os odores nocturnos, aquelas expansões do corpo a que nem poetas escapam".” — José Saramago Copy Share
