80 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Nobel Laureate José Saramago
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.
I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.
We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered
The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.
Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.
Reading is probably another way of being in a place.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.
Men are all the same, they think that because they came out of the belly of a woman they know all there is to know about women.
Your questions are false if you already know the answer.
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.
. . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.
I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.
You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have
...in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.
One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn…
A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.
Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
We all have our moments of weakness, just as well that we are still capable of weeping, tears are often our salvation, there are times when we would die if we did not weep - Blindness
As my cat would say, all hours are good for sleeping.
We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.
As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.
Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
