A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death. — Jose 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
“There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting… — 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
“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
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered if death is the same for all living beings, be they animals, human beings included, or plants, from… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due… — Jose 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
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Death went on, If I'd sent you, with your taste for expeditious methods, the matter would have been resolved, but times have… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“[...] death never replies, not because she doesn't want to, but because she doesn't know what to say in the face of… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. — 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, but a… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
...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 Image
