641 Quotes by José Saramago

O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra

A viagem não acaba nunca. Só os viajantes acabam

Why did we become blind, I don't know, perhaps one day we'll find out, Do you want me to tell you what I think, Yes, do, 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.

With the passage of time, as well as the social evolution and genetic exchange, we ended up putting our conscience in the color of our blood and the salt of our tears.

There must be a government, said the first blind man, I'm not so sure, but there is, it will be a government of the blind trying to rule the blind, that is to say, nothingness trying to organize nothingness.

do you mean that we have more words than we need, I mean that we have too few feelings, or that we have them but have ceased to use the words they express, and so we lose them.

what is right and what is wrong are simply different ways of understanding our relationships with others, not that which we have with ourselves

she gave him the safest place, what fragile walls we'd make, a mere stone in the middle of the road without any hope other than to see the enemy trip over it.

if before every action, we were to begin by weighing up the consequences, thinking about them in earnest, first the immediate consequences, then the probable, then the possible, then the imaginable ones, we should never move beyond the point where our first thought brought us to a halt.