Quote by António Lobo Antunes

“E queria estar a treze mil quilómetros dali, a vigiar o sono da minha filha nos panos do seu berço, queria não ter nascido…

— António Lobo Antunes

“If, for example, you and I were anteaters, rather than two people sitting in the corner of a bar, I might feel more comfortable…

— António Lobo Antunes

Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world,…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels like it…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

I was very interested in the relationship between the man who speaks and the woman who listens. I was drawn to the idea that…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most sinister, the…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes

“I thought, Hatred is vital to good health, and I thought, To find ourselves in harmony with the world is a lethal infection.”

— António Lobo Antunes

“Depois do 25 de Abril, por exemplo, tornámo-nos todos democratas. Não nos tornámos democratas por acreditar-mos na democracia, por odiarmos a guerra colonial, a…

— António Lobo Antunes

Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.

— Antonio Lobo Antunes