Life Quotes by José Saramago

“Per morire basta essere vivi.”

— José Saramago

“Few things in life hurt as much as the awareness that one has betrayed the ideas of one's youth.”

— José Saramago

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

— Jose Saramago

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

— Jose Saramago

“Hard experience of life has shown us that, generally speaking, it is inadvisable to trust too much in human nature.”

— José Saramago

“Não aprendeste nada, vai-te, dissera o Pastor, e quiçá quisesse dizer que ele não aprendera a defender a vida.”

— José Saramago

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

— Jose Saramago

just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution.

— Jose Saramago

“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.”

— José Saramago

“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

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our…

— Jose Saramago

“...given the behaviour of human beings throughout the ages, they do not deserve life, with its many dark sides, in all its…

— José 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

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

“...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

“Put less respectfully, these men and women, standing before the mirror of their life, spit every day in the face of what…

— José Saramago

“We are born, and at that moment, it is as if we had signed a pact for the rest of our life,…

— José Saramago

“The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word,…

— José Saramago

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more,…

— Jose Saramago

“Cain considers life and can find no explanation for it, there is that woman, who although clearly sick with desire is enjoying…

— José Saramago

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

The only miracle we can perform is to go on living, said the woman, to preserve the fragility of life from day…

— Jose Saramago

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

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

“Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us. The proof can be found in the fact that, though life leads…

— José Saramago

“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

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

— Jose Saramago

There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.

— Jose Saramago

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

— Jose Saramago

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life…

— Jose Saramago

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

— Jose Saramago

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

— Jose Saramago

“That's how life is, what it gives with one hand one day, it takes away with the other.”

— José Saramago

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing…

— Jose Saramago

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much…

— Jose Saramago

“the inmates of the second ward in the right wing have decided, at long last, to bury their dead, at least we…

— José Saramago

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and…

— Jose Saramago

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to…

— Jose Saramago

“...life laughs at predictions and introduces words where we imagined silences, and sudden returns when we thought we would never see each…

— José Saramago

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without…

— Jose Saramago