Jose Saramago Quotes

Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.

The emptiness of old age had caused him to forget that, in matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little.

Each part in itself constitutes the whole to which it belongs.

Where do begin, he asked, Where you always have to begin, at the beginning.

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not any more, each word that we utter will take up the space of another more deserving word not deserving in its own right, but because of the possible consequences of saying it.

There is relationship between sight and touch, something about eyes being able to see through the fingers touching the clay, about fingers being able to feel what the eyes are seeing without the fingers actually touching it.

We would know far more about life’s complexities if we applied ourselves to the close study of its contradictions instead of wasting so much time on similarities and connections, which should anyway, be self-explanatory.

Even the strongest spirits have the moments of irresistible weakness.

Destiny isn’t taken in by people trying to make what came first come afterwards.

The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.

No life is without its lies.