641 Quotes by José Saramago

Não é só a voz do sangue que não precisa de olhos, o amor, que dizem ser cego, também tem a sua palavra a dizer

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.

...sleep is a skilled magician, it changes the proportions of things, the distances between them, it separates people and they're lying next to each other, brings them together and they can barely see one another...

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief.

İnsanların neler yapıp yapmayacağı önceden hiç belli olmaz, beklemek, zamana zaman tanımak gerekir, her şeye egemen olan zamandır, zaman, kumar masasında karşımızda oturan öteki kumarbazdır ve bütün kartlar onun elindedir, bizler ancak yaşam karşılığında o masadan bir şeyler kazanırız, kendi yaşamımız karşılığında...

..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark,'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that moment he did not yet know how right he was.

Events went on to show that it is not by chance that a prime minister reaches such lofty heights and that, as the infallible wisdom of nations has demonstrated time and time again, each country gets the government it deserves, although it must be said that while it is true to say that prime ministers, for good or ill, are not all the same, it is no less true to say, are all countries.

Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.