The only time we can talk about death is while we're alive, not afterwards. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Time and time again one has seen how stories get exaggerated in the telling.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory,” — 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
There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“Keep what is of no use at the moment, and later you will find what you need.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Se ensinares, ensina ao mesmo tempo a duvidar daquilo que estás a ensinar.” — José Saramago Copy Share Image
The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing… — 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… — Jose 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
We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation,… — 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
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“he had suddenly seen what the world was like, how there are many lies and no truths, well, there must be some… — José 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
The beginning is never the clear, precise end of a thread, the beginning is a long, painfully slow process that requires time… — Jose 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
“don't ask me what good and what evil are, we knew what it was each time we had to act when blindness… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“human beings are known universally as the only animals capable of lying, and while it is true that they sometimes lie out… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Every second that passes is like a door that opens to allow in what has not yet happened, what we call the… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
With the passing of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the… — 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
But truths need to be repeated many times so that they don't, poor things, lapse into oblivion. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“... time is a master of ceremonies who always ends up putting us in our rightful place, we advance, stop, and retreat… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time. — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
just like everything else in life, let time take its course and it will find a solution. — 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
“The time for miracles has either passed or not come yet, besides, miracles, genuine miracles, whatever people say, are not such a… — José 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
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
“..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark, 'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“Time and time again one has seen, even in people not particularly given to reflection, that the best way of finding a… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
when you are old and realize that time is running out, you start imagining that you have the cure for all the… — 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
