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Jose Saramago Quotes

«Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.»
Author: Jose Saramago | Keywords: No Name
«Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.»
«There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.»
Author: Jose Saramago
«I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.»
Author: Jose Saramago
«Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.»
Author: Jose Saramago
«What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?»
Author: Jose Saramago | About: Kindness, World | Keywords: machines, Mars, The Killing
«Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.»
«All the scheming and plotting in the world won't result in something lasting, transcendent. Anything that's authentic, that's real, comes in the form of a gift. Even if by accident.»
«Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.»
Author: Jose Saramago | About: Language, Writing | Keywords: chooses, tiny
«This is how everyone has to begin, men who have never known a woman, women who have never known a man, until the day comes for the one who knows to teach the one who does not»
Author: Jose Saramago