641 Quotes by José Saramago

Maté a Abel porque no podía matarte a ti, pero en mi intención estás muerto.

El vocabulario que el señor nos enseñó da para todo, tener diarrea o cagalera, si te gusta más esta palabra, significa que no se consigue retener la mierda que llevamos dentro.

..."o Bem e o Mal não existem em si mesmos, cada um deles é somente a ausência do outro.

It just isn't possible for you to ask me all the questions, or for me to give you all the answers.

Angst maakt blind

Tutti noi soffriamo di una malattia, di una malattia di base, per così dire, che è inseparabile da ciò che siamo e che, in un certo modo, fa ciò che siamo, se anzi non è più esatto dire che ciascuno di noi è la propria malattia, per causa sua siamo così poco, così come per causa sua riusciamo ad essere tanto, tra una cosa e l'altra la scelta la faccia il diavolo.

Old photographs are very deceiving, they give us the illusion that we are alive in them, and it's not true, the person we are looking at no longer exists, and if that person could see us, he or she would not recognise him or herself in us, 'Who's that looking at me so sadly,' he or she would say.

Let him who has not a single speck of migration to blot his family escutcheon cast the first stone...if you didn't migrate then your father did, and if your father didn't need to move from place to place, then it was only because your grandfather before him had no choice but to go, put his old life behind him in search of the bread that his own land denied him...

In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all.