José Saramago

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

— Jose Saramago

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

— Jose Saramago

The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards.

— Jose Saramago

“none of them has a capital P branded on his forehead,”

— José Saramago

“No olvides que lo que llamamos hoy realidad fue imaginación.”

— José Saramago

I am a better novelist than a poet, playwright, or essayist.

— Jose Saramago

“Switch on the light, she said, I want to know if this is real.”

— José Saramago

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

— Jose Saramago

“your God is the only warden of a prison where the only prisoner is your God.”

— José Saramago

“Gostar é provavelmente a melhor maneira de ter, ter deve ser a pior maneira de gostar.”

— José Saramago

“O drama não é que as pessoas tenham opiniões, mas sim que as tenham sem saber do que falam.”

— José Saramago

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

— Jose Saramago

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

— Jose Saramago

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

“--I don’t quite grasp your meaning. --Just as I don’t quite understand what I am saying. But back to the point….”

— José Saramago

“The blind inmates advanced like archangels surrounded by their own splendour.”

— José Saramago

“when I get to the end of what I’m saying, I have to believe in my having said it, that’s often all…

— Jose Saramago

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

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

“A solidão não é viver só, a solidão é não sermos capazes de fazer companhia a alguém ou a alguma coisa que…

— José Saramago

“Tentei não fazer nada na minha vida que envergonhasse a criança que fui. Quando me for deste mundo, partirão duas pessoas. Sairei…

— José Saramago

There are those who deny me the right to speak of God, because I am not a believer. And I say that…

— Jose Saramago

We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement,…

— Jose Saramago

“...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

“He imagined that he was looking for her and couldn't find her anywhere, that the two of them were lost on a…

— José Saramago

The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each…

— Jose Saramago

Jeronimo, my grandfather, swine-herder and story-teller, feeling death about to arrive and take him, went and said goodbye to the trees in…

— Jose Saramago

“Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is greatly in need of stimuli to distract him, he lives alone and gets bored, or, to speak with…

— José Saramago

“he had suddenly seen what the world was like, how there are many lies and no truths, well, there must be some…

— José Saramago

“Contrary to popular belief, the helpful words that open the way to great, dramatic dialogues are, in general, modest, ordinary, banal, no…

— José Saramago

“... the General Cemetery's unwritten motto is All the Names, although it should be said that, in fact, these three words fit…

— José Saramago

“That night there was no conversation, no prayers or stories around the fire, as if the proximity of Jerusalem demanded respectful silence,…

— José Saramago

As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.

— Jose Saramago

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

— Jose Saramago

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

— Jose Saramago

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

— Jose Saramago

There is nothing healthier for a man than to walk on his own two legs.

— Jose Saramago

“That night the blind man dreamt that he was blind.”

— José Saramago

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

— Jose Saramago

In a king, modesty would be a sign of weakness.

— Jose Saramago