“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“...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
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
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
“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
“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.” — José 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
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
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
“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
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
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
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all… — 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
Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life. — 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
