641 Quotes by José Saramago

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

We've all had our moments of weakness, and if we manage to get through today without any, we'll be sure to have some tomorrow.

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

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Everything in this world can volunteer some reply, what takes up time is posing the questions.

The attitude of insolent haughtiness is characteristic of the relationships Americans form with what is alien to them, with others.

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.